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You think 14 year old fan girls are the only ones to get self-rightious about their "Right" to use other people's photos they find on the web?

People on Facebook are playing this meme where they make an album cover by taking a photo off Flickr, add a random quote from Wikiquote, and post it on their profiles or one of the groups made for it. Most people aren't checking to see if the photos have a Creative Commons License (which would allow them to use it), or are marked All Rights Reserved (can't use without the owners permission). Both are actually copyrighted, the CCL license just grants people free use.

So a bunch of people on my friends list suddenly started posting these on their walls there, which show up in my feed and on other friends pages (in other words, I didn't have to go looking on his page, it was right in my face), and I left a comment on one that tagged a bunch of other people to join in and listed the instructions (see below) telling people to go to this Flickr search and take the 3rd photo it pulls up, "Please don't use ARR photos for this". Because, seriously? I have my professional work on that site, as do many of my friends and colleagues.

You'd think an adult human being would have a clue and/or basic respect for others property? HA.

After being immediately insulted by another friend replying "If photographers don't want people taking their photos they shouldn't put them on Flickr" (sounds familiar, but last time I heard that it was from a kid who had 10000 photos of Gerard Way on her profile here) and after trying to explain why it was a problem (Flickr photogs are actually complaining about it on Flickr. It's not a hypothetical situation) then another person claiming it wouldn't be any fun if he had to stop and check if the photo was free to use, I gave up and just defriended them all. (okay, at the very end I also told the one guy who was arguing and claimed it was too much trouble and not fun that if he thought ripping people off when he could easily use the free stuff he was dirt, but that's all)

Posted on my pro site (comments require pre approval so it was in the waiting area):

"Comment: 
thanks for creating a bunch of unnecessary drama. this is why people do not allow photographers to
shoot in public places anymore because all you do, as a class of people, is scream about your
rights. and in the end you were completely wrong in both thinking you had an entitlement to tell me
and other what to do and wrong in the law as well. in fact, one of the people you were so obnoxious
to is in fact, an intellectual property rights lawyer and I am also an expert in the field of
international intellectual property rights. 

and this all coming from someone who shoots other's acts for a living.

please get a life. check yourself, and never think you are in any sort of position to pass judgement
on me and my friends. good riddance to you you self righteous bore"

Then:

"Re: Flickr

Misery. First off you shoot rock acts for a living. Your work itself is so derivative of other work
i hesitate to call you an artist by your standards.  Second, you post the images  in digital files,
and complain that their fans use their images on blogs... you accuse them of stealing... you can't
be this naive.

Flickr is proprietary software that you use, you did not create it. Nor did you create tiff, jpeg,
png or any of the other file formats for images.  Maybe you should check up on what that software
was created for... wait for it... YES, sharing!

Actually, I just don't have the time or the interest to debate with you.  I don't care what your
opinion is, I really don't.  You use words like "steal" and "moral" and "devalue" like everyone has
to agree with you.

You are wrong headed on this issue and in this specific instance and you are the only one who
stepped over the line.  I do not appreciate the comments you posed on my profile, the name calling,
nor the orders you gave me. I do not appreciate your busy body attitude, nor your self righteous
arrogance.

You are not welcome to contact me again."

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Adults can be stuck up condescending idiots, too. (please note, that other than saying the one guy was dirt if he felt that way, I never insulted anyone other than he is offended I disagreed with him. (him being an EXPERT on IP law and all) I am, however, insulting him now.) I just asked why people couldn't check for a CCL before taking the images. I never even accused the guy who posted the instructions of using an ARR photo... just asked the people following his instructions to check for a CCL.

And, how absurd is it that someone who's doing an ALBUM COVER meme thinks so little of music photography?

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This is the meme in question:

My computer died, doesn't recognize it's hard drive, can't be fixed with disk doctor, won't let me reinstall system software because it's so FUBAR, and I have no money whatsoever to get it fixed or replaced anytime in the foreseeable future.

that's about it.

Oh yeah, and it's February, so they shut my Buzznet phone off.

:(

I'm shooting the Taste of Chaos tour in San Diego tomorrow (2/18)... look for updates and Buzznet phone pix on my twitter @ http://twitter.com/miseryxchord with galleries going up on http://miseryxchord.com the following day!

Posted and emailed by Trent Reznor from nin.com this afternoon...

2.16.09: A note from Trent and a wave goodbye

Towards the beginning of my career in Nine Inch Nails, our biggest break came in the form of an invitation to perform a series of shows with Jane's Addiction. These performances essentially created and defined the term "alternative" rock in the US, created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set the stage for Nirvana to shift popular taste a few months later, and were really fucking FUN to play and attend - truly the best times I've had. The shows were epic. So epic, they propelled NIN to the "next level" (whatever that means), but caused Jane's to implode. The band broke up at the end of that tour.

Fast forward to the present. Corporate rock STILL sucks. A friend tells me they saw the original Jane's lineup play a tiny show in LA that was unbelievable. I break out my Jane's records and am amazed by how vital they sound. These guys were the real deal and in this current climate mostly dominated by poseurs and pussies it was refreshing to hear something that sounded dangerous, volatile, beautiful and SINCERE.
Emails were sent, phone calls were made, dinner was arranged, ideas were discussed and the next thing I know we're in the studio experimenting. We laugh, we get to know each other, we cry, we yell, we almost quit, we record LOTS of guitar solos, we discuss, we actually begin to all communicate, we yell some more, we become FRIENDS, we laugh again and we do some great things. I get to see first hand why they broke up all those years ago but I also get the chance to see four distinct personalities that become an INCREDIBLE band when they're in the same room.

In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I've been thinking for some time now it's time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year's "Lights in the Sky" tour was something I'm quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year - much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye. I reached out to Jane's to see if they'd want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Is there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.
Does it feel right to us and does it seem like it will be fun for us and you? Yes it does.
Look for tour dates soon and I hope to see you out there.

Trent

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posted by  trent reznor at 2:57pm


(snagged from web feed)

(New York, NY) February 12, 2009 – The original line-up of Fred Durst , Wes Borland, Sam Rivers, John Otto, and DJ Lethal are back from an eight year hiatus to bring their world back to ours. Fred Durst and Wes Borland said in a joint statement:

"We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other. Regardless of where our separate paths have taken us, we recognize there is a powerful and unique energy with this particular group of people we have not found anywhere else. This is why Limp Bizkit is back."

The guys will kick off a world tour in the Spring on the overseas festival circuit with headline shows sprinkled in throughout Eastern Europe and Europe, selected dates include, in late May, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries where Limp Bizkit has never played before despite huge demand, along with major festivals like Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in Germany, more dates to be announced shortly. A new album, which would be the original group’s first full-length effort since 2000, is also planned. Limp Bizkit’s first three albums have sold over 20 million copies in the U.S. alone, and another 13 million in the rest of the world.

Source: limpbizkit.com

I've recently posted small galleries from Combichrist and Black Light Burns @ The Avalon on miseryXchord.com, I'm editing shots of Dommin @ The Avalon, and from NOFX's 25th Anniversary show at The House of Blues in San Diego, getting ready to go photo Scott Weiland at the Fonda in Hollywood tomorrow (look for the photos on Buzznet Monday morning!). Monday I'll be documenting a behind the scenes look at the filming of Dirty Filthy Mugs first music video at AMP Rehearsal in Hollywood (one of Tiger Army's videos was also filmed there).









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MTV.com reports:

"Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage-punk act the Cramps, died Wednesday morning (February 4) due to an existing heart condition, according to a statement from the band's publicist. He was 62.

Born Erick Lee Purkhiser, Interior started the Cramps in 1972 with guitarist Poison Ivy (born Kristy Wallace, later his wife) — whom, as legend has it, he picked up as a hitchhiker in California. By 1975, they had moved to New York, where they became an integral part of the burgeoning punk scene surrounding CBGBs.

Their music differed from most of the scene's other acts in that it was heavily steeped in camp, with Interior's lyrics frequently drawing from schlocky B-movies, sexual kink and deceptively clever puns. (J.H. Sasfy's liner notes to their debut EP memorably noted: "The Cramps don't pummel and you won't pogo. They ooze; you'll throb.") Sonically, the band drew from blues and rockabilly, and a key element of their sound was the trashy, dueling guitars of Poison Ivy and Bryan Gregory (and later Kid Congo Powers), played with maximal scuzz and minimal drumming.

Because of that — not to mention Interior's deranged, Iggy Pop-inspired onstage antics and deep, sexualized singing voice (which one reviewer described as "the psychosexual werewolf/ Elvis hybrid from hell") — the Cramps are often cited as pioneers of "psychobilly" and "horror rock," and can count bands like the Black Lips, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Reverend Horton Heat, the Horrors and even the White Stripes as their musical progeny."