File conversion and other functions for free

 Free "Studio Manager" software

 http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm#.UmrJyBAs18E

With this free software you can:
- convert video and audio files between different formats as well as iPod, PSP, iPhone, BlackBerry and all other popular mobile phones and devices;
- burn and rip DVDs and audio CDs;
- upload and download YouTube videos and music to your computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone or BlackBerry;
- perform basic editing of audio and video files;
- record videos and make snapshots;
- create 3D videos and images.

Thanx to Marko for finding this.

Getting Audio from YouTube - New Info

 http://www.vidtomp3.com/
Thanks to Marko for sharing this web page for ripping audio from YouTube (by permission only, of course). This is good to know because the Download Helper plug-in for Firefox that I used to recommend has been disabled. - Frieda

Worst Interview Ever - do not emulate!

Sarah Buchanan shared this as her example of "worst interview ever."  http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-interview-fox-news-has-ever-do

Portable Recorders - examples

This is a page from the B&H store in New York, which has some of the better prices (US dollars) for audio field recorders.  You can see a lot of choices of what new recorders are available these days.  http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Recorders-Duplicators/ci/12164/N/4294550650

CJSF General Manager Magnus Thyvold talks about CJSF's role and what it offers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LSWydq4EN-A#at=246

Writing Headlines for Groundwire Canadian Campus-Community Radio News

Here's a nice Google doc on How to Write Headlines for Groundwire*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uEvsaEucsyJXe1P8IhkZuIO1vJSUy9N98gYsdtgULAQ/edit

*Groundwire, you may recall, is the bi-weekly national half-hour radio news program of the National Campus and Community Radio Association.  You can listen to past Groundwire episodes here:

http://groundwire.ncra.ca/

Use of excerpts of copyright material on radio - Fair Dealing

There is a fairly comprehensive article about Fair Dealing on Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_Canadian_copyright_law

This section is especially useful:

Sections 29, 29.1 or 29.2 of the Copyright Act of Canada create the fair dealing exception to copyright:

Research, private study, etc.

s.29 Fair dealing for the purpose of research, private study, education, parody or satire does not infringe copyright.

Criticism or review

s.29.1 Fair dealing for the purpose of criticism or review does not infringe copyright if the following are mentioned:

(a) the source; and

(b) if given in the source, the name of the

(i) author, in the case of a work,

(ii) performer, in the case of a performer’s performance,

(iii) maker, in the case of a sound recording, or

(iv) broadcaster, in the case of a communication signal.

News reporting

s.29.2 Fair dealing for the purpose of news reporting does not infringe copyright if the following are mentioned:

(a) the source; and

(b) if given in the source, the name of the

(i) author, in the case of a work,

(ii) performer, in the case of a performer’s performance,

(iii) maker, in the case of a sound recording, or

(iv) broadcaster, in the case of a communication signal.^[12]

To qualify under the fair dealing exception, the dealing must be for a listed purpose and the dealing must be fair.^[13]