The future is here today: you can’t play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions

danceswchopstck:

magicalishizu:

startrekgifs:

oodlenoodleroodle:

mostlysignssomeportents:

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement
because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth
of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for
300 years.

This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos – for audio, text, stills, code, everything.

Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research
on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it
was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok,
Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have
fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.

Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.

Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html

The vote is scheduled 10-13. September.

Make a move now.

This is so important.

Europe, please speak up and speak out.

HI!! REMEMBER BACK IN JULY WHERE WE GOT FIRST PART OF ARTICLE 13 STOPPED? WELL NOW WE´RE IN ROUND 2!!

WE NEED TO STOP THIS!!

AND WE ONLY HAVE A FEW DAYS!!!  THE VOTE IS SET FOR 12 SEPT.!!

IF YOU LIVE IN EU CALL YOUR MP AND ASK THEM TO VOTE NO

AND YOU LIVE OUTSIDE EU PLZ SHARE SO AS MANY PPL AS POSSIBLE SEES THIS

I ONLY SAW A POST ABOUT IT TODAY , 7 SEPT.!!

WE NEED TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!

@primarybufferpanel and @dduane, hope you’re OK with being tagged with this, and I hope you’ll pass it along. Thanks! (DWC in USA)

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

thelibrarina:

the-last-hair-bender:

raiona:

lycaanroc:

“How do people know that you’re gay?”

[Audio Transcription:

Guitar music softly in background.
Exhale.
“So. A lot of people ask, “how do people know that you’re gay?” And I gotta tell ya: I don’t think it’s the haircut. I don’t think it’s the piercings.

I think … 

It’s the sword.” 

End Audio Transcription]

Holy fuck

Every time I see this post my Kinsey number goes up.

SWORDS ARE LESBIAN CULTURE

robstmartin:

saccharinescorpion:

softbutchmonet:

saccharinescorpion:

talking about Rosie The Riveter, fun fact: while the We Can Do It picture has become the most-well known depiction of her in modern times, it wasn’t really a famous image when it was made–in fact, it wasn’t even intended to be her

the most famous depiction of Rosie The Riveter during WWII was probably Norman Rockwell’s painting 

image

note what she’s resting her foot on

i fully support anti-fascist/anti-nazi butch lesbian rosie the riveter

huh i sure do feel like reblogging this for no particular reason today

If ever I do not reblog this, avenge me