Frank Barknecht wrote:
>Hallo,
>Johannes Mario Ringheim hat gesagt: // Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
>
>
>
>>My solution (compromise) is using the CC by-nc-sa on works of mine that
>>contain uncleared samples. If I got sued at least I hadn't used it
>>commercially to earn money or allowed others to do so. This is a
>>compromise, and having just heard the story about Danger Mouse through
>>the grapevine, I've figured that for me personally I'm willing to take
>>the chance.
>>
>>
>
>Not directly related but as I'm currently reading "Accelerando" by
>Charles Stross - highly recommended btw. - I like how he portraits
>what the music industry looks like in 10 years:
>
> Welcome to the second decade of the twenty-first century; [...]
>
> The International Convention on Performing Rights is holding a
> third round of crisis talks in an attempt to stave off the final
> collapse of the WIPO music licensing regime. On the one hand,
> hard-liners representing the Copyright Control Association of
> America are pressing for restrictions on duplicating the altered
> emotional states associated with specific media performances: As a
> demonstration that they mean business, two "software engineers" in
> California have been kneecapped, tarred, feathered, and left for
> dead under placards accusing them of reverse-engineering movie
> plot lines using avatars of dead and out-of-copyright stars.
>
> On the opposite side of the fence, the Association of Free Artists
> are demanding the right of perform music in public without a
> recording contract, and are denouncing the CCAA as being a tool of
> Mafiya apparachiks who have bought it from the moribund music
> industry in an attempt to go legit. FBI Director Leonid Kuibyshev
> responds by denying that the Mafiya is a significant presence in
> the United States. But the music biz's position isn't strengthened
> by the near collapse of the legitimate American entertainment
> industry, which has been accelerating ever since the nasty
> noughties.
>
>Ah, the future!
>
>I didn't type this quote from my dead-tree copy of the book, I
>copypasted it from http://www.accelerando.org/ where the whole text
>of the novel is available as "Creative Commons
>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs" licensed etext.
>
>A must-read for every self-respecting copyleftwing revolutionary.
>
>Ciao
>
>
Great!
c.
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