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Wired Releases Creative Commons Sampling CD

Posted by timothy on from the mash-with-garlic-and-basil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In this month's issue of Wired Magazine, there is an included CD featuring songs from The Beastie Boys, David Byrne, among others. The unique thing about the CD is that all of the tracks are released under Creative Commons Licences, making them legal to share."

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  1. Good idea by synthparadox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thats actually a good idea, with RIAA complaining that file sharing hurts the music industry by letting people get songs for free, this may promote people buying CDs again. (You hear 30 seconds of a song, you like it, you buy the CD, etc.)

  2. contract by slavik1337 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I thought all "artists" gave copyrights to the company for their works ... can the artists do such a thing because I doubt that RIAA would :-\

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  3. Wrong. by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not all the songs allow sampling...

    Sampling Plus: Songs under this license allow noncommercial sharing and commercial sampling, but advertising uses are restricted.
    Noncommercial Sampling Plus: Songs under this license allow noncommerical sharing and
    noncommercial sampling.

  4. How can the Beasty Boys by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    release songs under the CC, when they couldn't even release their last album without a bunch of DRM?

    Plus, they're listing theirs under the 'Noncommercial Sampling Plus: Songs under this license allow noncommerical sharing and noncommercial sampling' which is fine and good for them; I'd be curious to know how many songs they've 'bitten' over the years that never got attributed.

    Paul's Boutique was an excellent example of how sampling should work, and how completely new works can be made from old - that was a fantastic record.

    Then we've got P. Duddy to show how old works can be ruined by 'sampling' *entire songs*. Ugh.

    It IS great to see that there is some attempt at a revamp of copyright, and this CD will only increase the exposure of CC. At least until the songs get on P2P and are all mixed up with ones that are not legal to share...

  5. Beasty Boys - Bit by the lawyers? by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ... when they couldn't even release their last album without a bunch of DRM?

    It could be legal problems -- If they live by sampling, they'll have to get the rights to release the samples that they're using.. They may not have been able to get a release for anything more than non-commercial sampling.

    As for the flip-flop, they may be experimenting to see which approach sells more records, or they may be trying to get back into the good books of all the fans they would have pissed off with a DRM'ed CD.

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  6. It was ever thus. But what changes? by jbn-o · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Creative Commons organization always had multiple licenses with different terms; it never meant just one thing (so the complaint was never valid). But more importantly, this matches "free software" licensing and "open source" licensing which are also varied in what is allowed and what copyright powers are retained. You can't know that a program is "free software" or "open source" and know that everything you might want to do with the work is allowed (most licenses don't cover software patents, for instance); you can't be sure what is allowed downstream for derivatives from your derivative (some licenses don't have a copyleft, for instance).

    How is this new set of CC licenses new? I can't answer that for everyone, but only one thing changes for me: I host "Digital Citizen" on alternate Wednesdays from 8-10p on my local community radio station (WEFT 90.1 FM). On my show, I air only things which can be copied and distributed (at least verbatim). CC-licensed music and talks make up a good deal of my show (in the language of CC licenses, I make a "Collective" work).

    The Sampling license doesn't allow the entire work to be copied and distributed. But the other sampling licenses (Sampling Plus, and Non-Commercial Sampling Plus) do allow the entire work to be copied and distributed. So, for the first time, knowing that a work is a CC-licensed work is not enough to merit inclusion in my show. I have to make sure a CC-licensed work is not licensed to me under the Sampling license.

    This isn't a big deal, but it is a change.

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  7. DRM free Metallica by anti-NAT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Metallica are selling FLACs of their live concerts here. In their FAQ they acknowledge that they know they aren't DRM protected and can be shared.

    The main problem with this is Slashdot itself. When I discovered this at least six months ago I thought this was pretty major news as Metallica were one of the main, vocal opponents of DRM free music, which of course means it easily can be distributed via P2P file sharing. Do you think my Slashdot submission was noticed ? I don't ever remember seeing it.

    Maybe Slashdot has secretly been taken over by RIAA, and don't want Metallica's change of heart to be known about by anti-DRM proponents.

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