Reply With QuoteIf it's legal, it's a good iniative.
Just read that recordcompanies are now dragging Kazaa to the courtroom coz they are fed up with the program being used as a tool to illegally copy records and films.
Gold Record [Level 7]
Wired magazine is offering a CD that can be copied, sampled and shared in P2P for free. You can also download the songs (some by Beastie Boys, David Byrne, The Rapture) from their site for free.
Apparently they're promoting an alternative copyright system created by a contributor to the mag. Here's the link:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample.html
What do you think?
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If it's legal, it's a good iniative.
Just read that recordcompanies are now dragging Kazaa to the courtroom coz they are fed up with the program being used as a tool to illegally copy records and films.
Underground Hit [Level 5]
Nice idea !
It looks like a good thing if artists would be willing to giveThe licenses come from Creative Commons, the innovative nonprofit founded by Wired columnist and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig
beginning young others the right to use samples from
their work, without the administrative hassle and costs of
royalties which would otherwise frustrate creativity.
However i wonder how nice and generous the original artists
would prove to be if a track containing their work sells a few
hundred thousand or even million copies. :-)
Add to this the fact that most "artists" want to sample the
past rather than the present, i'm curious if we hear anything
from professor Lessig in 5 years time.
Just my reflections, Peter
The best things in life are free :-)
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