3 posts tagged “floss”
Helen Coonan friend of the media mogul gets friendlier. Cross-media ownership reform allowing for an all out frenzy on media ownership in Australia and now draconian copyright laws that make it illegal to "perform" Happy Birthday.
The Internet Industry Association today warned that changes to Australia’s copyright laws being rushed through Parliament risked making criminals out of everyday Australians.
“As an example,” said Mr Coroneos, “a family who holds a birthday picnic in a place of public entertainment (for example, the grounds of a zoo) and sings ‘Happy Birthday’ in a manner that can be heard by others, risks an infringement notice carrying a fine of up to $1320. If they make a video recording of the event, they risk a further fine for the possession of a device for the purpose of making an infringing copy of a song. And if they go home and upload the clip to the internet where it can be accessed by others, they risk a further fine of up to $1320 for illegal distribution. All in all, possible fines of up to $3960 for this series of acts – and the new offences do not require knowledge or improper intent. Just the doing of the acts is enough to ground a legal liability under the new ‘strict liability’ offences.”
And some people thought we had to go halfway across the world to fight for freedom. Happy Birthday to You originated as a greeting song sung by teachers to student and it's current form goes back as far as 1893. The copyright royalties for the song are owned by AOL Time Warner (clearly not the two lovely ladies who invented the song 100+ years ago), and it generates approximately $2 million p.a. for the company. Both the melody and the words are protected by copyright in those
jurisdictions with a copyright term of length of life of the author
plus 70 years. In life of the author
plus 70 years jurisdictions the lyrics will come out of copyright at
the end of 2008 and the music will come out of copyright at the end of
2016. So the next time you can public sing Happy Birthday for me won't be till I'm 34. Party at Roma Street Parklands!!! Details closer to date...
Source: Internet Industry Association
Windows Media Player (wma, wmv, wvx, wax, wm, asf, asx)
Check your about:plugins file by typing it into the address bar of FF. Check for the "Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library" and "Windows DRM" (and v2). If they are not there then copy the following files into C:/Program Files/Mozilla/Firefox/Plugins:
- npdsplay.dll: http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/N/npdsplay.dll/3.0.2.629/download.html (this is the updated version)
- npwmsdrm.dll: http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/N/npwmsdrm.dll/9.00.00.3250/download.html
- npdrmv2.dll: http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/N/npdrmv2.dll/9.00.00.32508/download.html
And you are good to go...
Real Media Player (ra, rpm, rm, ram, rmvb, rpx, smi, smil, rt, rp)
Download Real Alternative make sure you install the Firefox plugin.
QuickTime files (mov, qt, 3gp)
Download Quicktime Alternative and same as above with the Firefox plugin.
This way you don't need to install either Quicktime or Real Player and you will still be able to play all the above extensions in FF or from the Desktop.
Also to download YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe and more videos then grab the Firefox extension Video Downloader
Clicky....
