You might remember that Incubate received a letter and invoice some time ago from Buma/Stemra (Dutch music collecting society) for our 2009 festival. Based on the budget of our festival, Buma judged that we had to pay a sum of € 14.822,90 for copyright costs. This was 7% of all costs we made for the [...]
[Check] Buma & Incubate update
July 14, 2010
Fuck this blog
February 3, 2010
Sometimes stickers can be such fun! Look at the (very bad) pic above. At the conference during Eurosonic, some rascal (who shall remain nameless) put a the sticker of The Pirate Bay on the nameplate of Matthijs Bobeldijk from Buma/Stemra. We had a laugh! Now look at this website. How much fun can you have [...]
Incubate stuurt opnieuw brief aan Buma/Stemra
November 27, 2009
Na afgelopen woensdag de naar Buma/Stemra (digitaal) verstuurde brief op deze blog geplaatst te hebben, heeft Incubate niet stil gezeten. We hebben een nieuwe brief opgesteld die we vandaag aangetekend naar Buma/Stemra hebben gestuurd naar aanleiding van de aangekondigde Fair Play licentie die vanaf 1 januari in gaat. We hopen deze keer wel antwoord te [...]
Brief aan Buma
November 25, 2009
Vanddag postte 3voor12 een artikel over mogelijk uitstel van de Embed-regel van Buma. Deze mail stuurden we medio oktober aan Buma, maar tot op heden hebben we nog geen reactie mogen ontvangen. Daarom plaatsen we hem hier, om te kijken of we zo wel reactie krijgen. geachte, Ik ben de begroting voor Incubate 2010 aan [...]
The Buma/Stemra hassle in English
October 7, 2009
We’ve devoted a few blogposts on the Buma/Stemra law called Fair Play. They want to charge a blog for embedding music and films. Techcrunch wrote an English article about it, so all you non-Dutch readers can also read what we’re rebelling against. In the meantime our friends from Eclectro also support our Copyright Killed The [...]
Copyright killed the video star
October 2, 2009
They took the credit for your second symphony Rewritten by machine and new technology And now I understand the problems you can see Oh-a oh. You might have heard of the new Buma/Stemra law called Fair Play. They will charge the whole Dutch web community for embedding musicclips. Let’s try to push the limits of [...]
This post will cost us 650 euro
October 1, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOrkic6og-4] Today Dutch copyright organization Buma/Stemra launched the Fair Play license. They charge blogs for embedding. It’s like calling Vinnie Jones an elegant soccer star. Read more on it here. This new law would mean the death of blogs like this. Of blogs that promote culture and don’t make any money out of it. We [...]
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The highlights on inlog.org – week 6
February 10, 2012
We can understand that you don’t got all the time in the world to check all our blogposts, so that’s why from now on we give you every Friday the highlights of the week. First of al we are really proud of our live recordings from some artists at Incubated. Listen to Gary War, R. [...]