[linux-audio-user] Re: Re: Legalities

[Bob van der Poel]

Ken Restivo wrote:
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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.
>

I had a _quick_ look at Creative Commons a few weeks ago. I guess all 
those choices are a _good_ thing ... but I got quite confused :) Which 
CC license are you using?

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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
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