The European Commission’s says that “press and quality journalism are not for free” so the Copyright Directive creates the condition for fair bargaining between press editors and online platforms.
Australia has its own problem with the big tech giant.
The former CEO of Facebook’s Australian business Stephen Scheeler urged users to delete the social network’s app in response to Mark Zuckerberg’s “sad” decision to block news from the platform in the country.
He said that Facebook’s controversial move “looks and feels ugly” and blasted CEO Zuckerberg’s motivations.
“I’m a proud ex-Facebooker, but over the years I get more and more exasperated. For Facebook and Mark it’s too much about the money, and the power, and not about the good,” Scheeler said. “Imagine if a Chinese company for example had done this, we would be up in arms. All Australians should be quite alarmed by this.”
It’s hard not to like mehro and his new track chance with you. If you only have 3 minutes today to listen to one song, make it this. Fans of Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright will love, but mehro can also reach a younger generation.
The Los Angeles Lo-fi pop artist also uploaded a video which he directed alongside Ryan Calavano.
“When I wrote ‘chance with you,’ it was an acknowledgement that I let something slip through my fingers,” he says. “I let fear overpower my desires, and I won’t let that happen again.”
Give it a stream on KOAR’s Indie Invaders Playlist.
Amanda Berry Smith (January 23, 1837 – February 24, 1915)was a former slave who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children. She was referred to as “God’s image carved in ebony”.
Smith worked as a cook and a washerwoman to provide for herself and her daughter after her husband was killed in the American Civil War. By the time Smith was thirty-two, she had lost two husbands and four of her five children. Attending religious camp meetings and revivals helped Smith work through her grief and avoid depression. She immersed herself in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
In 1878, Smith arranged for her daughter, Mazie, to study in England. The two traveled overseas and stayed in England for two years. On the journey over, the captain invited her to conduct a religious service on board and she was so modest that the other passengers spread word of her.
She next traveled to and ministered in India, where she stayed for eighteen months. Smith then spent eight years in Africa, working with churches and evangelizing. She traveled to Liberia and West Africa. Smith also expanded her family by adopting two African boys. While in Africa she suffered from repeated attacks of “African Fever” but persisted in her work. As a strong proponent of the Temperance Movement both in Africa and in the United States, she was invited by noted temperance advocate Rev. Dr. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler to preach at his Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York, then the largest church in its denomination, on her return to America.
Look out for Ema Drei aka GIUNGLA and her new track ‘Turbulence‘. You like if you love alternative electro pop that’s a bit darker.
Her new single is about things we can’t control. She says, “It’s about missing life out there, with its ups and downs. “What often feels like the scariest part of an experience is just part of the journey. Sometimes you need to go though it, in order to keep flying”
She’s shared the stage with The xx, Foals, Grimes, Franz Ferdinand, and Mura Masa and has gained support from BBC Radio 1, The Line Of Best Fit, London In Stereo and Amazing Radio. Give it a stream.
Mildred Fay Jefferson (April 6, 1927 – October 15, 2010). She was an American physician and political activist. The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School and the first woman to become a member of the Boston Surgical Society.