Physical video switchers are becoming a thing of the past, due to automation. Many newscast production facilities don’t have one; everything is full software on touchscreens and keyboards. Live sports is one area where switchers are still used, but advances in physical technology as well as AI will bring changes there as well.
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Rudolph - public domain?
- Thread starter MarcB
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The chances of getting caught were much less 15 or 20 years ago. For instance the poster who mentioned movies advertised in newspapers. You literally would need to search thousands of papers to find that. Now it'd be trivial to write a python scraper that could search for the movies you want to claim.
One summer vacation when I was in grad school, I got a job with ASCAP and I would go to bars and restaurants and apparently at the time 1990, you needed, not only a license, but a specific license that covered so many seats and number of people per establishment.
Quite a lot of the mom and pop places were not covered. The usually biggest mistake was to only get a license from BMI and thinking it covered ASCAP as well.
Today I work in a private club and out club had performance licenses from SESAC, ASCAP BMI and GMR. AND the bands that play need to be covered by all four as well before they can play.
Considering it's a private club, I often wonder who the snitch is when we got called out for GMR.
One summer vacation when I was in grad school, I got a job with ASCAP and I would go to bars and restaurants and apparently at the time 1990, you needed, not only a license, but a specific license that covered so many seats and number of people per establishment.
Quite a lot of the mom and pop places were not covered. The usually biggest mistake was to only get a license from BMI and thinking it covered ASCAP as well.
Today I work in a private club and out club had performance licenses from SESAC, ASCAP BMI and GMR. AND the bands that play need to be covered by all four as well before they can play.
Considering it's a private club, I often wonder who the snitch is when we got called out for GMR.
And even then, you'd be getting many more non-infringing showings of movies than infringing ones, not to mention thousands and thousands of incidental mentions of the films you were looking for. Even searching for, say, "Field of Dreams" and "public library" is bound to get you more listings of new titles available at countless libraries than little announcements of Wednesday afternoon screenings.
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