[ox-en] Wired embraces CreativeCommons
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:03:56 +0200
Hi!
The Wired magazine includes a music CD in issue 12.11 containing 16
songs under CreativeCommons licenses. Some excerpts from
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample.html
By nature, musicians are thieves. Nicking a bit of this song and a
lick from that one, shaping their style on the riffs of those who
came before, musicians are experts in the art of acquisition. Woody
Guthrie knew this; he pinched melodies from Leadbelly - and let
anybody pinch him in return. The Sex Pistols knew this; they
shamelessly lifted from the New York Dolls and ABBA (yes, ABBA) and
set off a teenage riot. And James Brown knows this; he accrued a
large debt to Little Richard - only to become the most sampled man
in showbiz, with thousands of his grunts and bridges and beats
pilfered by lesser men.
...
When we embarked on this project, we knew exactly what we were
stepping into: the fight over copyright, perhaps the most polarizing
and contentious dispute in today's entertainment industries. Because
of copyright issues, the music industry has become a business on the
brink of collapse, waging an unwinnable war against technology.
Every day, millions of music fans thumb their noses at record labels
and exploit digital tech for all it's worth, willfully swapping and
- we'll say it - stealing music. In response, the Recording Industry
Association of America has deployed an army of lawyers, initiating
copyright infringement lawsuits against 5,400 file sharers (and
counting) and lobbying Congress to boost penalties against both the
scofflaws and the technologies they use (which looks to us like a
doomed attempt to outlaw Moore's law).
We're not here to argue which party is more at fault. We simply
realize that there's no long term in this scenario; there's just a
slow decline.
...
If anyone knows where the songs can be downloaded I'd be grateful to
know (aka: they didn't go *that* far ;-) ).
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
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