13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
10:40 p.m.
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.
Chris.
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