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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:36:43AM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:08:53AM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> > If I can rant for a moment, I get quite annoyed by the whole *music
> > business* which seems to screw artists, reward mediocrity, and promote
> > business models which evolved in a very different world. I'm just glad
> > (very glad) that I've been able to enjoy music as a passion over my life
> > and never needed it as income.
> >
> > For now I'll just leave my songs up on my site. If I get a C&D I'll take
> > them down. No big deal to me either way. And, if I am technically
> > breaking a copyright, I'll sleep well knowing that I'm not hurting
> > anyone's income :)
>
> Another way to combat the tide of irrational copyright attitudes is to
> create your own original content/songs/whatever and then release them
> under a license that frees people of the restrictions. If each one of
> us does this it will slowly change things. The Creative Commons licenses
> seem to be popping up in more and more places every day, for example.
>
Indeed. All my stuff is Creative Commons licensed, and I am definitely not alone. There is a huge wealth of material out there with CC licenses, everything from music to mixes (ccmixter.org) to sound effects and field recordings (freesound archive) to photographs (Flickr.com has a Creative Commons section), etc.
Professor Lessig of Creative Commons was inspired by the approach that Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen took with the GPL, and it's very smart. You can't change a horribly broken and deeply-entrenched system, but you *can* go off and create your own better alternative to it.
Somewhat off-topic, but it's often struck me that only a LISP programmer would have come up with the recursive hack that is the GPL. :-)
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