{"id":3836,"date":"2008-01-16T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/01\/16\/status-back-baby"},"modified":"2008-01-17T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T19:10:06","slug":"status-back-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/01\/16\/status-back-baby","title":{"rendered":"Status Back Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t already, we still urge you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.PetitionOnline.com\/mod_perl\/signed.cgi?ZFT\">sign the petition<\/a> regarding the ZFT&#8217;s recent &#8220;Aggressive Actions&#8221;. 1208 signatures at this time of writing &#8212; not too shabby for a petition that&#8217;s been online for 4 days, but the more the merrier, obviously. You&#8217;ll find yourself in the company of such illustrious names as Jon Naurin, Robert Kevorkian, Don Preston, Jimmy Carl Black, Nigey Lennon and Candy Zappa.<br \/>\nFor those of you who wish to be kept abreast (now there&#8217;s a wonderful expression): there&#8217;s a direct link to the petition at the right of this page. See that little banner with Dr Sharl&#8217;s hand waving at you? Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, these litigations have been gaining interest on several weblogs who specialize in intellectual property and fair use. Couple of links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ipkitten.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/zappa-tributes-getting-zapped.html\">Intellectual Property News: Zappa tributes getting zapped<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.own-it.org\/news\/article\/?p=15&amp;a=1086&amp;t=\">OwnIt.org &#8211; Zappa Estate Zaps Tribute Acts<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The IPKat is dubious about the legitimacy of such a claim and we&#8217;re inclined to agree, especially given that much of Zappa&#8217;s music is instrumental.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, when people who are actually knowledgeable in this particular legal field begin to express their doubt as to the validity of the ZFT&#8217;s claims, that <em>has<\/em> to mean something, right?<\/p>\n<p>In other news, a couple of new-ish DVD releases, available on Amazon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Frank-Zappa-Transmissions-Live\/dp\/B000ZPPRUS\">Frank Zappa &#8211; Transmissions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Frank-Zappa-Music-Review\/dp\/B000VZZSH4\/ref=pd_sbs_d_h__img_1\">Frank Zappa &#8211; Music In Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How questionable are these? You tell me.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, I sure hope the ZFT won&#8217;t crack down on Amazon.com! :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t already, we still urge you to sign the petition regarding the ZFT&#8217;s recent &#8220;Aggressive Actions&#8221;. 1208 signatures at this time of writing &#8212; not too shabby for a petition that&#8217;s been online for 4 days, but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/01\/16\/status-back-baby\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,261,3],"tags":[245,259,312,133,299,260,134],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-zappa-family-trust-lawsuits-against-fan-sites-tribute-bands-organisations","category-zappa-news","tag-copyright","tag-fair-use","tag-intellectual-property","tag-new-release","tag-petition","tag-play-the-music","tag-zft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}