We recently had the pleasure of working on a project with ‘Creating Heroes‘; an organisation that mentors young creatives towards building a career in Media and the Performing Arts. In a limited time-frame we produce a brand identity, a brochure, and the website. We even found time to produce a custom font titled ‘Hero’, which you can download for free! Click here to download.
offset media have just launched Bitches Zine, a personal project of Janine Francois. What is Bitches? Well, it stands for Bold Individuals That Challenge Hiphop’crisy En Style.
The Digital Economy Bill has entered the ‘wash up’ stage, with the MP taking the ‘Shoot first, ask questions later’ approach. Opting to pass the bill with all it’s flaws and amend it later. Knowing our government, this approach isn’t filling me with reassurance.
more>>38 Degrees raised over £20,000 to put an advert in today’s news papers. The ad will appear in today’s Guardian (Page 3), the Times (page 16) and hundreds of websites. One final push, and grand gesture not to get the bill rushed. Here is a preview ad:
Offset Media took part in a “Digital Economy Bill” flashmob protest on the 01/04/10.
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I mentioned 38 Degree earlier on this blog. They are doing all they can to see the bill does not get rushed through without due consideration to the consequences!
They plan to raise £10,000 to put advert in key newspapers and on websites specifically for the MPs to read and understand the gravity of people’s opposition to the bill. Every bit of money will help, please go to http://secure.38degrees.org.uk/stop-the-bill and do your bit. Who knows, we could be changing the world!
more>>Whoo democracy works! The people lobby against it, and the politicians rush the policy through the Commons before the general election.
You can watch a 2 hour long video of the debate on the BBC website. The BBC seem to have taken the public’s side and also appear to be against the bill ending their post with a quote from Andrew Robinson, who stated “The public will not respect a law that was quite literally written by the record industry, for the record industry. As it stands, the bill is fatally flawed, and fundamentally unjust.”
more>>More development regarding the Digital Economy Bill -
“The bill, which passed through the Lords by 165 votes to 140, now enables the High Court to issue an injunction against sites suspected of hosting material that infringes copyright and effectively force them to shut down.” – International Business Times.
It looks like all parties have a stand on the bill with the Lib Dems spear-heading the whole thing now wanting to ban site such as YouSendIt and now even YouTube!
more>>I spent all morning reading up on the ‘Digital Economy Bill’ after receiving a link that outlines fears the bill ‘wipe out indie WiFi hotspots’. Reading further into what the bill proposes; it really will affect the way we use the internet. First and foremost the bill’s intent is to stop illegal downloading and file-sharing. Though that is just one part, the key areas of the bill listed on the parliament.uk website are:
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