An intruder writes...
Bad news, I'm afraid. Eddie is away this week - polishing his Montenegran domain, no doubt - and I have been asked to fill his not insubstantial shoes.
Worse, I've been asked to come up with some ideas. So far, the only one to have cleared the editor's extremely elevated hurdle concerns my dog, YouTube, and Cat Stevens. Yes, it's a complex tale, which you can read about on the dot life technology blog. It involves me getting into trouble for using a track by Mr Stevens in a video of my dog, and ending up becoming an advertising billboard.
It has sparked a furious row on the blog about the rights and wrongs of copyright, with one reader chipping in with a tale of getting his knuckles rapped after putting his mobile phone video of a cricket match online.
It all raises so many questions. If I buy an album of 70s classics am I not free to use it as a soundtrack for my shaky home movies? Have the music companies at last found a way of making money from the internet? And why is my dog called Cabbage?
Do let us know if your taste in music has got you into trouble too.
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