A Copyfighter’s Musings

Hopefully, you know about the Wired/CC concert with David Byrne and Gilberto Gil.  That by itself is a great step for CC.  But it gets better:

“Next month, songs by the Beastie Boys, David Byrne and 14 others will appear on a compilation CD whose contents are meant to be copied freely online, remixed or sampled by other artists for use in their own new recordings. “The Wired CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.” was compiled by the editors of Wired magazine, of San Francisco, as an experimental implementation of a new kind of intellectual-property license called Creative Commons. About 750,000 copies of the disc are to be distributed free with the magazine’s November issue. The disc also will be handed out to audience members at a benefit concert by Mr. Byrne and others tomorrow night in New York.”

To me, this is huge.  It’s an amazing list of artists that will help expose a large audience to CC.  I know Wired has featured CC before, but it hasn’t ever shown CC in action so clearly.  It’s another step away from the margins and towards broader, more mainstream acknowledgement and acceptance.  It’s also great to see an organization like Wired work jointly with CC on something like this.

Filed by Derek Slater at 10:27 am under General news
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