Hilary Rosen Loves Creative Commons

13.7Billion Years writes "Former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen has written a piece in Wired extolling the virtues of Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons licensing, providing such juicy tidbits as 'I'm still cynical about its origins, but I've come to love Creative Commons,' and 'the industry ought to embrace Creative Commons as an agile partner providing tools for new ways to do business.' She's not quite ready to pooh-pooh the current all-or-nothing licensing regime just yet but this sounds like good progress."

Comments

man tar?

[fiddlesticks]

from the FA:

'After spending the summer decompressing in Italy with my family'

sorry, she spent the summer running

tar -zxfv ./

on herself, or her family too?

wtf does 'decompressing' mean if you aren't a deep sea diver or a tar/zip file?

is she aware of the patents on some de-compression work?

Err did I miss

[Alci12]

Hell freezing over?

Re:incompatable with gpl

[macshit]

What the hell more do you want? The individual unmixed tracks ready to load up in Pro Tools (or should they use a more OSS-friendly file format)? The instruments they were played on and sheet music to go with it?

Yes?

Throw Bill Gates' head in too and I'll even say thank you!

Re:Rosen's view of copyright..

[GlassHeart]

you're an artist, and if wandering the countryside in search of scraps was good enough for artists of the 13th century, it's good enough for you. In short -- know your place. A farmer gets to leave a legacy for his children. You don't.

Sorry, what stops an artist from selling art and buying some land to pass on to his or her children?

In other news....

[Anonymous Coward]

Kim Jong Ill in a suprise announcement today proclaimed his love of Capitalism and the new direction his country will take towards a market economy. Also he says that all that stuff about turning the 'Citadel of Imperialists' into a sea of fire was said in anger and he hopes the USA can forgive him.

Re:Hilary Rosen

[Anonymous Coward]

There's this thing called "google". There's another thing called "wikipedia".

There's this word called "lazy".

Hilary the Insult Comic ex-RIAA CEO

[Riktov]

Creative Commons is a wonderful license...

For me to poop on!

Re:Rosen's view of copyright..

[Saeger]

And if you want to get rich from music, WORK THOSE INSTRUMENTS!

Ahh... but I was hoping to hit it big so that my great-great-grandkids could live off artificial-scarcity royalties for the rest of their spoiled, unproductive lives -- a healthy commons, and 'working' for a living be damned.

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no, man mpg123

[tepples]

sorry, she spent the summer running tar -zxfv ./ on herself, or her family too?

No, she spent her summer decompressing MP3s of member labels' recordings to /dev/audio. I'd bet record industry executives get free MP3s as a perk.

News for Nerds from the future

[Anonymous Coward]

Your Rights Online: Bill Gates Loves Linux and the GPL
Posted by CowboyNeal on Tuesday October 26, @08:04PM

Bill Gates, formerly of Microsoft, has written a piece in Wired extolling the virtues of Linus Torvalds's Linux and the GPL system, providing such juicy tidbits as 'I'm still cynical about its origins, but I've come to love the GPL and, most of all, Linux,' and 'the industry ought to embrace the GPL as an agile partner providing tools for new ways to do business.' He's not quite ready to pooh-pooh the current all-or-nothing licensing regime just yet but this sounds like good progress."