Existen diversas disciplinas –como la arquitectura, la ingeniería, entre otras- en las cuales los profesionales requieren estar matriculados para poder ejercer la actividad. Hoy en día la matriculación del diseño es un debate latente, y en algunos casos ya es un hecho. Veamos cuál es el panorama en nuestro país…
Este blog se murió. Ahora solo es el eco fantasmagórico de las notas que publico en https://medium.com/@eavogadro
domingo, diciembre 26, 2010
Un problema de diseño
domingo, diciembre 12, 2010
Yo pisaré las calles nuevamente
domingo, diciembre 05, 2010
Llevar el diseño a la escuela
A design workshop will help you take your pupils out of the classroom and into more complex contexts on an assignment that’s focused on identifying opportunities for design improvement, understanding user needs and working in teams to create products and systems that solve real problems and improve the quality of life.It will help you as a teacher make links between your design classes and other subjects and areas of the curriculum, especially ICT for research and idea development, and other subjects like science, maths, geography or history that take pupils out of the classroom. It will also help you make cross curricula links with citizenship and sustainability teaching.
The Design Mark is a quality standards framework developed jointly by the Design & Technology Association and the Design Council. It is intended as an aspirational badge awarded to primary and secondary schools that demonstrate excellence in their teaching of design. It looks beyond schools that simply deliver excellent design and technology to schools that also integrate contemporary design thinking into their teaching.The Design Mark aims to identify and reward primary and secondary schools that are delivering high quality design education to their pupils. It also aims to:
- Promote higher standards in the quality of design education
- Help schools and pupils better understand the wider role of design in society
- Encourage schools to develop closer links with professional design practice
- Raise the status of design in schools and local communities
- Provide schools with a framework to help them evaluate and self-review standards and practice
jueves, diciembre 02, 2010
Bailando en el Titanic
Companies and organisations across Dublin are planning a range of events including seminars, workshops, discussions, exhibitions, performances, showcases and competitions on a range of topics, from cutting-edge design technologies such as biomimicry to arts initiatives like opera in public places.“Releasing creative energy is what it’s all about,” says the man charged with the organisation of the festival, Michael Stubbs, assistant city manager with Dublin City Council.“If we just wait around for the next creative wave to come along, we will miss it – that’s not the way things happen. We have to compete at the leading edge with the most creative cities in the world. We have to go back to basics to a certain extent. We have found ourselves in a spot of bother and if we look within ourselves to our own creativity we might come up with sustainable solutions that are different and distinctly Irish.”The Innovation Dublin festival was launched last year to promote innovation and creativity in the city. Originally conceived by the Creative Dublin Alliance and coordinated by Dublin City Council, the project received hundreds of ideas and submissions from Dubliners across all walks of life. The result exceeded all expectations, with 40,000 visitors attending over 465 events throughout the city region. In response to this initial success, it was decided to make the festival an annual event.
lunes, noviembre 29, 2010
Dos experiencias españolas
The answer is that together, they make up the home of the first attempt in the world to create a Social Silicon Valley, a vibrant and unique industrial park for social businesses, NGOs and co-operatives committed to tackling social problems in Bilbao.I have just returned from an energising a few days in Bilbao during which I visited the Social Innovation Park, the concept of SIX pDartners DenokInn - the Basque Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and New Business Development. Under their leadership, private companies and banks, local and regional government, and public sector organisations have begun to collaborate with local communities to identify problems, ‘grow' ideas , develop new ways to tackle them and pilot potential solutions and organisations to improve the way in which people live.
Entendemos que hay muchos elementos potencialmente atractivos en estes posicionamientos, pero nos interesa ir un paso más allá y superar el campo conceptual y la mera observación para empezar a testar algunas ideas sobre la ciudad posible. De este modo, con el impulso del Colegio de arquitectos y el apoyo del ayuntamiento de A Coruña, planteamos una nueva fase en el estudio Habitares (www.habitares.eu) en el que creamos una Plataforma de reflexión y difusión sobre A Coruña, que denominaremos "La ciudad de los barrios". En ella, de manera transversal, se suceden distintas aproximaciones hacia los elementos que componen la ciudad que habitamos. Como hilo conductor de esta plataforma se propuso la iniciativa de "Espacios Públicos Añadidos", que de forma progresiva irían tejiendo una red complementaria de lugares que ofrecen cualidades no habituales en los espacios públicos actuales. Esta puesta en valor de "lugares comunes" desde acciones sencillas y de bajo coste parece ser un "mínimo" capaz de ofrecer espacios de "máximos" en muchas ciudades europeas o americanas y que puede reconocerse en acciones que van desde las propuestas de ocupación de Cirujeda a las intervenciones urbanas de Lacaton&Vassal o el reciclaje operativo de Teddy Cruz.
Incidiendo en la idea de testar algunas de estas propuestas, de combinar la praxis y la disciplina, se plantearon una serie de talleres en algunos barrios de la ciudad. Cada uno de ellos representa una problemática o situación diferenciada y se intentó implicar a los vecinos para escuchar sus demandas. Una aproximación tangencial y algunos anhelos ciudadanos y un impulso contínuo de debate y la reflexión sobre la eficacia de aplicación de pequeños gestos o elementos que dan forma a los espacios públicos actuales. Varios colectivos de arquitectos locales (Ergosfera, Desescribir, Pescadería20 y Grupo Dodó) se encargaron de coordinar sus reuniones y plantear acciones urbanas de bajo coste. Estas acciones reversibles servirán de plataforma de experimentación sobre la ocupación y el uso de los vacíos urbanos, incidiendo en algunas de sus múltiples contradicciones que la burocracia y la "acotada" planificación urbanística parecen implicar.
lunes, noviembre 22, 2010
Vigilando el estofado
At least not if graphic designer and US Initiative collaborator Lindsay Kinkade gets her way. With a team of graduate students from the Rhode Island School of Design, Lindsay has proposed a creative solution called The Grocery Loop, a food-centric bus route designed for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority. Stops include not only supermarkets but also farmers' markets and ethnic grocers. A graphic identity for an existing bus and a smart phone app further enhance the riders' experience.
Open Kitchen es una aplicación de recetas para el iPhone, pero no recetas cualquiera, sino recetas con historia, de esas que están vinculadas a momentos o personas de nuestras vidas. En este caso, que forman parte de la vida de los 18 bloggers gastronómicos que han participado en su creación aportando un total de 251 recetas, cada una con su pequeña historia detrás.
martes, noviembre 16, 2010
Unos días en Recife (3)
viernes, noviembre 12, 2010
Unos días en Recife (2)
martes, noviembre 09, 2010
Unos días en Recife
martes, octubre 26, 2010
Una de compadritos
Acá hay una buena descripción del libro por lo que no me atrevo a abundar en peligrosas metáforas. De todos modos, sugiero dedicarle unos tangos orilleros y quizás unas ginebras. También podría ir de la mano de la relectura de ese primer Borges enamorado del arrabal imaginario; exagerado, pero encantador en su afán de construir una mitología fundante para esta Buenos Aires tan jovencita. Pla escribe dando saltos, como una película en blanco y negro que alterna escenas de profunda emoción y con otras resueltas a los tiros. Al igual que Soriano, no puede disimular que quiere a sus personajes y, como Arlt, los dota de una moral definitivamente anti burguesa. Que lo disfruten.
miércoles, octubre 20, 2010
Jugar por jugar
She envisioned it hidden in the trees, with enclosed and screened areas and, per the kids’ requests, fans to keep them cool, a swirly slide and hidden trapdoors.
“Most important was that the treehouse be magical and give the kids a sense of wonder,” she says.
Gentry presented her ideas to Lord, Aeck & Sargent, the architecture firm that had designed the camp. Senior associate Amy Leathers came up with a design that filled the bill: a rustic octagonal structure with a lookout and a “green” roof.
Gentry asked the Savannah College of Art and Design if students might be willing to carve totem poles to punctuate the path to the treehouse. Professor Allen Peterson’s introductory sculpture class went to Rutledge to see the camp.
“We were all blown away by the place and the mission,” he says.
Spurred by the cause and the opportunity to place their work in public, the students exceeded expectations, he says. By turns, colorful, wacky and mysterious, the sculptures add excitement to the journey through the woods. Camp director Dan Mathews reports the campers and their parents so love the new hideout that he jokes about renaming the facility Camp Treehouse.
Sirva este post para reflexionar sobre lo poco que jugamos en la ciudad. Tratamos al espacio público como si fuera un sitio incómodo e inseguro que nos separa de nuestras casas y no nos permitimos siquiera el rayito de sol en la vereda de nuestros mayores. Por otro lado, nuestras plazas son bastante aburridas y además están pensadas únicamente para menores.
El diseño tiene -o debería tener- un rol importante que jugar en el desafío de abrir nuevos espacios de juego en la ciudad. Habría que organizar concursos e involucrar a la propia comunidad local en la búsqueda de esos intersticios e invitar a todos a tomar las riendas en sus manos (¡como este señor de Portland que decidió traer unas cabras a pastar a su terreno!). Un buen comienzo podría ser listar los pocos espacios de juego existentes y mostrar ejemplos internacionales para inspirar el cambio.
sábado, octubre 16, 2010
Esto de la interné
What’s frustrating? That the people who are listening to you through unauthorized copies weren’t counted or that they were listening through unauthorized copies?
McKeown: It’s that they weren’t counted. It’s that their interaction and kind of additive presence to what my fanbase is is not able to be known in a system that wants to know that. I don’t agree with that system but that’s the system and it’s just been very frustrating for me over the years.
Then these social networks come along and all of the sudden here’s this new number that can be used. So for a while it was like MySpace views or number of friends on MySpace and then it turned into Facebook fans and Twitter followers and I have heard in the music industry “this is someone good to tour with because they have x number of followers” or you know ‘we’re interested in signing you because you’ve got x number of Facebook fans” and in some ways it’s replaced SoundScan.
But how does that translate into people in the room? I know people who have really lively online fanbases, many Facebook responses, lots of Twitter followers who draw the same amount of people that I draw in my rooms. There’s this sort of conversion that doesn’t necessarily happen, or you can’t draw a straight line between this artist has 5000 Facebook followers yet still is only drawing 30 people in this city.
In some ways I’ve begun to think of it as two different careers, you kind of have your online career where it’s like how do you communicate with those fans and what do you do for them and how do you cultivate that interaction and then there’s also do you give a good live show and when are you coming to this city?
I certainly as an artist feel a certain amount of pressure. I was resistant to this social media stuff at the time. I mean MySpace was less about status updates and more about just making music available in your player and kind of collecting friends. But the microblogging aspect of Twitter and Facebook demanded fresh personal content and I have certainly felt the pressure to keep up with that. And that is often at odds for me with the amount of things that I’m willing to talk about with the three or four thousand people who follow me online.
La situación parece ser "hay algo ahí afuera pero no sé bien qué es ni como manejarlo". De todos modos, también se vislumbra de las tantas explicaciones posibles. En tiempos de saturación y copia los fans buscan contenido "enriquecido" y la historia del propio artista surge como lo único definitivamente ireemplazable.
¿En el extremo los músicos deberían twitear más y componer menos para contentar a sus fans? Absurdo. Pero estas mismas herramientas ofrecen una oportunidad inédita de conexión con los amantes de la música de forma tal de poder entender o visualizar el impacto transformador del arte.
¿Habrá casos locales para testear esta hipótesis? Un show (Calamaro en el Luna Park o Puente Celeste en el Vinilo) podría convertirse en una interfase fenomenal de interacción con los fans y de horizontalización de esa relación. ¿Por qué no usar las redes sociales para calentar la previa desde un punto de vista más personal? ¿Por qué no aprovechar la instantaneidad de Twitter para plantear un concierto que incorpore los estados de ánimo u opiniones del público? ¿Por qué no ofrecer contenido enriquecido allí mismo, con la historia de los temas o realidad aumentada desde los celulares? ¿Por qué no consolidar la conexión post show montados en el potencial viralizador de los fans extasiados?
En On Twitter Emily White presenta una serie de ejemplos probablemente demasiado yanquis para nuestra mentalidad American Psycho Bolche pero útiles pensar su eventual adaptación a la realidad local.
Back in the day, albums were set up months in advance and of course they still are now, but, via Twitter, Imogen Heap can engage her audience in each step of the creative process. By the time the album is released, her audience is clamoring for it. Imogen's fans were actually a part of her most recent album: from the songwriting to the recording to even naming the songs. They witnessed and experienced the emotional highs and lows of creating music, making the final result that much more of a visceral experience. And they followed along when she launched a feed at The Grammys via her dress.
La clave es involucrar, entusiasmar y comprometer a los fans.
One of the most powerful aspects of Twitter is the search function. What better way to find out what is going on by searching real people's online chatter? We have interns search for our artists daily to find casual fans chatting about them. Then, they either ensure that the artist replies or the interns will reply and tag it as the artist’s team so as not to pose as the artist. When I say casual, I am talking about someone who posts "Making Thanksgiving dinner listening to Brendan Benson's Lapalco," who may not even know he's on Twitter, on tour or has a new album, nor are they the kind of fan that might seek that info out (especially since the aforementioned album is from 2002). When we took Brendan on late last year, we found hundreds of fans speaking about him daily in casual conversation. No one had been tweeting back at them with news of his tour and, as soon as we did, tickets spiked. For example, his NYC show's sales went up four times in as many days after we'd launched these basic internet marketing tactics. This information is free and available and should be a no brainer for an artist at any level or a team of any size.
Esto parece ultra sencillo pero dudo que algún artista local lo esté aprovechando. Hay que tener la oreja atenta para escuchar esas conversaciones y desarrollar desde ahí una nueva estrategia de vinculación.
Want to distribute a track exclusively to your Twitter followers? Check out CASH Music's open source code to do just that. Fans obviously love it.
Looking to connect with other artists? At any level, re-tweet and publicly chat back and forth with the artists that you share camaraderie and bills with. Whether you're just getting started and gig-swapping with other artists in nearby cities or are Dave Matthews supporting The Rolling Stones, it's important to disseminate necessary promotional info and interesting to watch the dialog. I have also had industry folk come out to shows at the last minute based on seeing a reminder from my Twitter feed.
Todos administramos redes de contactos de manera más o menos intuitiva. De todos modos, es necesario reconocer su potencial y actuar en consecuencia. Los cruces deben provocarse, buscando puntos de encuentro no sólo con otros músicos sino también con el amplísimo espectro de la comunidad creativa. The Times They Are a-Changin'
miércoles, octubre 13, 2010
El poder de la lengua
¿A qué viene tanto autobombo?. En la revista Ñ del 14 de agosto entrevistaron a Josefina Ludmer como tema de tapa. En la nota se revisan varias cuestiones de interés pero me llamó la atención el siguiente fragmento:
-Esa cuestión está muy desarrollada en su libro, pero es un tema que ni se debate en la Argentina.
-La lengua da ganancias. Buena parte de la economía actual se basa en producciones que tienen a la lengua como insumo principal. ¿Qué pasó en los años 90 para que España se volcara a esto y América latina se desentendiera totalmente? La lengua tiene un valor económico estratégico. Los argentinos nos abandonamos, nos dejamos apropiar la lengua. Lo que sucedió es que España se integró a la Unión Europea, es decir, a un capitalismo moderno.
-España siempre supo, desde Alfonso el Sabio, que la lengua es un asunto estratégico. Recién en el siglo XX, América latina logró competir. En los 20, Borges discutió con Guillermo de Torre cuando el ensayista español propuso que Madrid "fuera considerada la capital del castellano". Ahora eso es impensable.
-En los Estados Unidos se percibió muy bien el giro que dio España en los 90 cuando se convierte en el centro exclusivo y excluyente del castellano. Es el momento en que España invierte sumas considerables en los departamentos universitarios dedicados a los Latin American Studies y aparece el Instituto Cervantes. Todo lo que se produce en castellano termina pasando por allí, y como ellos son los que financian todo eso acaban siendo los que deciden qué se estudia, qué se investiga, qué circula. En esa estrategia es fundamental el papel que juega Telefónica, ligada al Cervantes.
-Además de la estrategia española, también falta ahora un espíritu como el que tenían Darío o Borges, orgullosos de nuestra forma de escribir en castellano.
-Recuerdo que venía desde los Estados Unidos, donde todo esto se ve muy claro, y notaba que a nadie en el mundo cultural argentino le importaba en lo más mínimo. Lo que hoy se desea es ser editado en Barcelona y presentar el libro allá. La literatura hoy pasa por los aparatos de distribución y difusión, y esos aparatos hoy están en manos españolas y centrados, fundamentalmente, en Barcelona.
-La lengua es un recurso esencial, ya que es la base de la sociedad, del espectáculo y del mundo de la significación.
-Yo digo que es como el agua o el aire, uno de los recursos esenciales de nuestro presente y el más estratégico con vistas al futuro. Mientras los españoles ponen el acento en este tema y los Reyes van a todos los Congresos de la Lengua, en toda América latina ni siquiera se está pensando en esto. Hay alguna inversión privada en los medios, hay algunas iniciativas independientes y en una escala muy micro, pero el Estado está absolutamente ausente en este tema en el que ya hay abundante bibliografía.
Si bien el proselitismo con el que comencé el post refuta en parte a Ludmer, no deja de ser cierto que resta mucho camino por recorrer para aprovechar al máximo las oportunidades que ofrece nuestra lengua. España entendió muy bien los beneficios políticos y económicos del soft power y lleva invertidos una buena cantidad de euros en la expansión internacional del Instituto Cervantes.
sábado, octubre 09, 2010
Ciudades que aprenden
Based on extensive research carried out in different cities worldwide, Tim Campbell’s seminar ‘learning cities’, provided valuable insights on how cities learn, transform and acquire knowledge for long-term prosperity, drawing lessons that may serve for cities like Torino. Campbell illustrated three case studies of cities that have succeeded in embedding knowledge into their hard (infrastructures and institutions) and soft infrastructures (culture and quality of life) for more efficient actions and effective lives, and therefore can be characterized as ‘learning cities’: Bilbao, Seattle and Curitiba.
Interestingly, these cities all have something in common: crisis. Even though each of these cities has adopted its own approach to learning, the recession was a key driver in their innovation process, prompting leaders to take action to foster the exchange of knowledge. Incidentally, each of these cities also formed a dedicated agency for the city.
El denominador común parece ser el enfoque open source, la idea de que a la ciudad la cambiamos entre todos. No por casualidad aparece la crisis como disparador para la búsqueda de consensos y como genésis del cambio. Luego, para cristalizar estos procesos, surge la posibilidad de crear agencias especializadas. De todos modos, tal como lo demuestra el caso de Bilbao, pesa más la convicción y la capacidad de liderar proyectos que sean realmente inclusivos.
miércoles, octubre 06, 2010
Aperitivos
The past decade has seen growing concern regarding the state of food security and nutrition in many North American communities. Food security refers to the availability of food in an area and an individual’s access to it. While the benefits of a healthy diet on an individual’s quality of life and general health are becoming widely recognized, basic access to quality and affordable food remains a challenge for a growing number of communities. Neighbourhoods that do not have access to good quality and affordable food are labeled as “Food Deserts”.i These neighbourhoods are often considered to be socially-distressed, characterized by low average household incomes.If policy makers wish to improve the health, productivity and general prosperity of communities within their jurisdictions, addressing the existence of food deserts is an important first step forward.
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Can the carrot industry sex up its image by branding baby carrots as a munchworthy junk food a la Cheetos or Lay's Potato Chips? Crispin Porter + Bogusky seems to think so. The high-profile ad agency is launching an ambitious $25 million campaign to help the carrot industry compete with the junk food industry. The campaign is being launched with the help of almost 50 carrot growers, including carrot behemoth Bolthouse Farms.
sábado, octubre 02, 2010
El mundo del diseño
miércoles, septiembre 29, 2010
Queda la música
"The artist was like a sugarcane worker," says Devo frontman Jerry Casale of the good old days for the record business, which were the bad old days for many musicians. We're backstage at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in April, a traffic-jam-with-soundtrack east of the San Jacinto Mountains near Los Angeles. Casale, pairing a royal blue suit with a black tie and looking very much the new-wave pioneer, has no love for the labels after 30-plus years in the business. But last November, Devo signed a 360 deal with Warner Bros. Records, and he's here to rebrand his band.
"This wasn't our first idea, believe me," Casale says. "There was a lot of hot air from the cognoscenti in the business world about how record labels are dead, you can make a deal with a sponsor, get marketing money from Dell or somebody like that. Well, forget it." If that was ever true, Casale says, those days are already gone. "[Event promoter] AEG and Live Nation blew their whole wad on major names."
Casale bought in because of the label's willingness to try something different with the promotional budget. "We said, 'You're going to take your marketing money and give it to the ad agency Mother,' " Casale says. "And they said okay."
Even in the days of Usenet you were involved in Marillion discussion forums, am I remembering that right?Mark Kelly: It was a mailing list. It wasn't official, it was run by a guy in Holland. Very interestingly, the vast majority of the fans on that list were Americans. I think mainly because they probably adopted the whole Internet thing a bit earlier than the Europeans. I just thought it was quite interesting that there was all these fans. I think there was only about 1,000 of them on the list, but just discussing Marillion, Marillion songs, lyrics, what we were doing. And so I signed up to it when I had Internet access or dial-up, you know, and I used to just read it and I was a lurker, nobody knew I was reading it.After a year or two I blew my cover. I can't remember why but it was probably to correct somebody who said something that was completely wrong (laughs). And so in the process I started to get all the questions from people about why we weren't touring the States and all that sort of thing. And I tried to explain that we didn't have a record deal in the States and every time we did tour in the past it had always been with money from the record company. So then there was a guy from Canada said, "Oh well, why don't we raise the money for you to come and tour?" They opened a bank account and everybody who was interested donated money into it and then they raised about $60,000.Actually, by this point, once they had said all this I was like, "Well I think you're a bit crazy but if you want to do it. I mean, obviously we can't have anything to do with it, but if you guys want to go ahead and organize it, we're not taking the money." Some guy said, "I'll set up an escrow bank account and we'll put it all in there." Anyway, within a few weeks it had about $20,000 and I hadn't even told the rest of the band at this point what was going on, so I had to sort of break the news to them how we'd gotten into this situation where if they-- I think I said we'd need about $50,000 to make it, break even.Anyway, we did the tour. And oddly enough, because of the story around it we got quite a lot of publicity which meant we sold more tickets than usual because there was-- each gig that we were playing there'd be a little local newspaper or whatever would run the story about the tour fund and how the American fans had raised the money for us to tour. So it was this sort of interesting story in itself whether or not you knew anything about Marillion, you know.That was an interesting lesson actually for us: to raise the band's profile, finding a story that sort of transcends music is a good thing. So anyway we did the tour. And I suppose that was our first realization of the power of the Internet and how rabid fans can change things, make things happen.
When Apple looks beyond music.
The final piece of the puzzle is that Apple’s sights are now set on much bigger horizons than the comparatively narrow confines of music. In the days when their devices had monochrome screens music was the killer app. But now in the days of the iPhone and iPad music has been shunted aside by downloads of all other kinds of apps…3 billion of them. Music no longer powerfully demonstrates the capabilities of Apple’s devices.
Innovate the product, control the future.
Apple can absolutely be as important a driving force in the next chapter of digital music’s growth as it was in the first. But only if labels, publishers and artists alike engage Apple and other device manufacturers are product innovators. Until we have a series of new music products that utilize all of the creative assets of a device such as the iPad, download sales will rapidly lose relevance. And as well they should. The paid download was a transition technology and no more. It was useful for bridging the divide between the analogue and digital ages but it has run its course. But until new music products arrive the slow demise of the download will also be the slow demise of digital revenues. Streaming services, apps and the rest are all parts of the puzzle. But the music industry needs a new killer premium music product to pivot around.
It is time for a new generation of music products to herald in The First Golden Age of Digital Music...
Warner, en el artículo en Fast Company, parece reconocer este desafío y empieza a apostar sus billetes analógicos la hibridación tecnológica:
The two divisions push each other to break new tech experiments. Atlantic has used its artist Web sites to do things like reward people who purchase albums with personalized videos (Trey Songz recorded his shirtless). Jonathan Tyler fans get free downloads of his band's live performances. The day of Shinedown's St. Louis show, Atlantic updated the band's Web site with the latest features from Cisco's Eos social-networking platform. The technology lets fans post concert videos and pictures and allows Atlantic to offer full streams of songs for site members. The following week, Smith comes to New York to get a tutorial on the new features and does an impromptu video chat from a studio Atlantic has designated for the specific purpose of having artists record online content. Despite the short notice -- Atlantic sent an email to registered members just a couple of hours earlier -- about 1,000 fans show up.
Others have mentioned similar ideas to this but if I ran a major I would offer start-ups a blanket licenses for say 2 years. They’d have unfettered access to the catalogue with no upfront fee – or at least not something significant, maybe a small enough fee to act as a screening tool or buffer. But also upfront, the label would provide a fee for ongoing rights after the 2 year period. This would eliminate costly fees upfront for the start-ups, give them music to work with and place the responsibility fully in their hands to make it work or not knowing what it would cost after the grace period. Add a clause that if the service isn’t self sustaining the label has a right of first refusal to purchase the technology developed.
También prescribe una posición mucho más laxa e inteligente con relación a la propiedad intelectual, siguiendo el modelo de la industria de la moda:
I should be able to go to any site and see or listen to any music. It shouldn’t matter where the rights’ holders reside or anything like that. Right now Arcade Fire is, well on fire, and they own all the rights to their music and publishing. That should be the model going forward. So we have new artists coming up in that model, yet historically we have something completely different and cumbersome in existing copyrights laws and ideals on enforcing them. Something’s going to have to give, and artists are used to struggling, so I, for one, am putting my money there. They have the most to gain too. And they desire it.
If there were relaxed copyright laws, the industry argues there would be a widespread loss in revenue. My argument there is that there would be more opportunity to earn revenue and profits that that would be the outcome. Image if more people could pursue music in the style of GirlTalk.
Mientras tanto, en Buenos Aires, se está gestando una mesa de discusión coordinada por gente del Club del Disco, apoyada por nuestro programa Opción Música, e integrada por referentes de todos los sectores en la industria de la música. ¡Cómo dijimos más arriba, son tiempos interesantes!