August 13, 2013

Sir Paul McCartney Gaining Back Rights To His Music in 2018, 2019?


                                                                 


This is interesting. I wonder how this will impact on other musicians/singers who perform his songs, and also how it will impact You Tube users if they have ever uploaded any of Sir Paul’s songs like I have.



Still, the article says ‘could’ and it’s a few years off. Intellectual property issues are already a legal nightmare and who knows what formats for music will be around then? 
I think it will probably all be digital in the future.


I can see his point, however. It would be annoying to have to pay to sing your own song!


Former Beatle Paul McCartney could reclaim the copyrights to a cache of his most famous tunes, but he’ll have to wait five years to do so.

Copyright laws allow songwriters to regain control of their pre-1978 compositions after 56 years. That means McCartney could control his Beatles songbook from 1962 (like “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You”) in 2018 and an even bigger cache of tunes released in 1963, (“I Saw Her Standing There,” “Please Please Me,” and “Do You Want to Know a Secret’” among them) in 2019, MSN.com reported.


McCartney will be 76 in 2018.

The Beatles broke up in 1970. Michael Jackson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing later bought up a huge chunk of the group’s music.
                                             


McCartney is worth nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars. He recently re-recorded “Mother Nature’s Son,” which was released on the White Album in 1968.

The Beatles evolved from John Lennon’s group, the Quarrymen, and came together in Liverpool, England, in 1960.
                                                   

They are considered by many to be among the greatest and most influential rock bands ever. By 1964 they became international stars who were at the forefront of what was known as the British Invasion, which included the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and The Who.
                                                 


The Recording Industry Association of America reports The Beatles sold 177 million “units” in the United States and more than 1 billion worldwide, making them the best-selling band in history.McCartney told the British website Uncut that he’ll be happy to get what should rightfully be his.

“You know what doesn’t feel very good is going on tour and paying to sing all my songs. Every time I sing ‘Hey Jude’ I’ve got to pay someone,” he said.


With many thanks to NewsMax for the story and picture.
                                                                  

                                                                 


                                                                  

                                                                   

































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The Piano Guys: Mission Impossible - Featuring Lindsey Stirling


                                                               

                                                                          

                                                                        
The Television series, “Mission Impossible” first appeared in 1966, and was produced on and off until 1990.


The theme was written by Lalo Schifrin who also worked with Clint Eastwood on the “Dirty Harry” movies.


Instantly recognisable it has been in our collective consciousness for decades as it has also been made into a movie franchise with Tom Cruise. 


The fifth movie in the series is about to go into production.


I really like the work of the Piano Guys: innovative with their instruments, their arrangements and their You Tube clips.


Lots more information on The Piano Guys’ You Tube channel.


Here’s the original version – just for fun – as it first appeared on our TV screens.

                                                                             

                                                              
                                                                        
I have to admit I also loved the theme from “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” which appeared in 1964. And many, many others: a huge list for sure!


It was written by Jerry Goldsmith who was a prolific writer of both TV and movie soundtracks.



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August 08, 2013

Jane Austen's Sense of Duty and Obligation Has Been Lost in Modern Literature, Study Reveals






                                                                       

                                                                   

I cannot recall how many times I have read and watched “Pride and Prejudice”, as well as other Jane Austen novels. I rarely tire of them. 


My preferred versions of the film depictions are the Greer Garson/ Sir Laurence Olivier version, and the BBC’s Colin Firth/ Jennifer Ehle version.


Part of the charm of these stories lies in the fact that language, and times, have changed so enormously as the following article suggests. 


It is not only ‘a sense of duty and obligation’, although that is very true, but the etiquette as well.(Perhaps etiquette was indeed a duty and obligation?)


It is also learning an appreciation of how things were in a relatively isolated community many years ago. 


No 24-hour graphic news cycle to worry about!



Although “Pride and Prejudice’ is set during the Napoleonic wars one gets the sense of some ongoing conflict but never the full impact of this situation, much less the social aftermath of the French Revolution, and the living conditions in Great Britain at that time.

Maybe Jane Austen herself was not fully conversant with such matters. 

Perhaps she didn’t need to be.

I suspect she probably was, but preferred to write about people and the society she lived in, and the human condition. A lot of these societal characteristics haven't changed  that much. Found love, lost love,,,it's still happening to this day.

Imagine how many other great novels she would have written had we not lost her at the young age of 41.



I think ‘a sense of duty and obligation’ has disappeared from many parts of our lives, not just from literature.


As the research has shown today’s world and words are very different indeed.


I really enjoyed the “Bridget Jones” films. They are not quite literary giants; who knows if they will become classics in 200 years’ time, but they are certainly something many of us can relate to on so many levels whether it is Bridget herself, her friends or even her parents.



What these two stories have in common are mothers trying to marry off their daughters and very eager-to-marry daughters, but most of my friends’ favourite common thread is the fact that Colin Firth is in both of the movies!


‘Feeling’ about something does seem to trump things rather than ‘acting’ on them.

                                                                   

                                                                     

By Hannah Devlin


IN Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet fends off an unwelcome invitation from the self-important Lady Catherine de Bourgh with classic tact, citing pressing family commitments. "I am much obliged to your ladyship for your kind invitation," she replies. "But it is not in my power to accept it. I must be in town next Saturday." 
To most, this exchange may simply serve as further evidence of the ability of Jane Austen's favourite heroine to dispatch hectoring superiors and appalling suitors with efficiency and style.

However, according to an analysis of about 1.5 million British and American books, such references to family obligations - a common theme in Regency and Victorian fiction - have dramatically decreased in literature during the past two centuries.

The use of words linked to duty and obligation have become far less frequent, while words linked to individualism and materialism have risen in frequency, the study of books published between 1800 and 2000 has revealed. The words "choose" and "get", for example, have increased significantly while the use of "obliged" and "give" have fallen.

As readers of everything from Bridget Jones to Julian Barnes's novels might confirm, books today are decidedly more "feely".

While 19th-century protagonists were frequently found galloping across fields or dancing at balls, today's spend much more of their time pondering their internal worlds. This turn towards inner mental life and away from outward behaviour is reflected the gradual rise in the use of the word "feel" and a decline in the use of "act".

Professor Patricia Greenfield, a psychologist at the University of California Los Angeles, who carried out the research, believes that this reflects a shift in society away from living in small communities in a rural environment towards materialistic urban living.

"The currently discussed rise in individualism is not something recent but has been going on for centuries as we moved from a predominantly rural, low-tech society to a predominantly urban, high-tech society," she said, suggesting that a trend towards individualism was established well before Thatcherism or celebrity culture made an impact. Rather than reading a selection of books and laboriously interpreting their themes, Professor Greenfield relied on a more efficient, if less literary, method of teasing out the preoccupations and attitudes of the day.

Using Google's word count tool, the Ngram Viewer, which can count word frequencies in millions of books in less than a second, she analysed how the usage of various words has waxed and waned since 1800.

The investigation, published in the journal Psychological Science, involved more than 1 million books published between 1800 and 2000 in the US and about 350,000 books published in Britain during the same period. The body of literature included popular fiction, text books and academic works.

The study showed that the word "duty" declined between 1800 and 2000 to less than one third of its initial level, whereas "decision" showed a five-fold increase. The usage of "get" underwent a temporary decline between 1940 and the 1960s before rising again in the 1970s, which was attributed to a decline in self-interest during the Second World War and the Civil Rights movement.

Gordon Rudd, a computer scientist at the Keele University who has analysed plot structures in work by Shakespeare, Austen and Arthur Conan Doyle, said traditional scholars might not be impressed by Professor Greenfield's method. 

But he added: "That's a shame, because the underlying idea is a good one."

With many thanks to The Australian

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August 06, 2013

Whale-watching in Australia


                                                                     
                                            
                                                                           


                                                                          



Lizzie sent me these great pictures from her whale watching experience in Coolangatta.
                                                                 




"They were not taken by me but by another person, Steve Triance.

My photos where not as spectacular as my digital has a short shutter delay and I sometimes missed the action. Steve had an SLR with tonnes of lenses.

It was a very exciting experience.
Apparently the Humpbacks (these ones) are the only whales that leap (breach) from the surface like this.

We were about 4 KM off shore and watched them leaping every minute or so for over an hour while we were following a pod of juvenile males up the coast.
They were real show offs.

They even swam under the boat and resurfaced in front of the bow and we could smell the air they expelled from the airhole on the top of their heads.
The boat captain said they were unusually active on this occasion.

We were on a 3 hour round trip. The whales were still leaping around as we reluctantly headed back to port. That evening we could see some leaping from the shore at Coolangatta, but they were a lot farther away than we'd got in the morning.

I went whale watching off Alaska a couple of years ago and this was much more exciting. 

Those Alaskan whales were smaller, and never breached, and only occasionally showed their tales before they dived down for several minutes."
I think the sight of a diving whale perfectly illustrates just how awesome these creatures are!
This picture, and more information, with thanks to Noosa News via UQ Whale news, and how interesting that their tales are as unique as our fingerprints!
                                                                    

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