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."

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Re:Open Source Tunes

[double-oh three]

Also; Le Tigre, Matmos, DJ Dolores, Cornelius, The Rapture, Paul Westerburg, Thievery Corperation, Dan the Automator, Giberto Gil(Brazilian Minister of Culture), Spoon, My Morning Jacket, Zap Mama, and David Byrne.

The Tracks are as follows: :01 Beastie Boys/ Now Get Busy :02 David Byrne/ My Fair Lady :03 Zap Mama/ Wadidyusay? :04 My Morning Jacket/ One Big Holiday :05 Spoon/ Revenge! :06 Gilberto Gil/ Oslodum :07 Dan the Automator/ Relaxation Spa Treatment :08 Thievery Corporation/ DC 3000 :09 Le Tigre/ Fake French :10 Paul Westerberg/ Looking Up in Heaven :11 Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia/ No Meaning No :12 The Rapture/ Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix) :13 Cornelius/ Wataridori 2 :14 Danger Mouse & Jemini/ What U Sittin' On? (starring Cee Lo and Tha Alkaholiks) :15 DJ Dolores/ Oslodum 2004 :16 Matmos/ Action at a Distance

Sole Stated Purpose of Copyright

[Roger_Wilco]

It has nothing to do with protecting anybody, but only encouraging progress. See Article I, section 8, clause 8 of the US constitution:

Congress has the power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Re:Pooh-pooh?

[Synonymous Yellowbel]

I am sorry but never in my life did I encounter the expression pooh-pooh, can someone please enlighten me?

It basically just means to dismiss, disparage or criticise (depending on the context).

steve

Mods on crack

[Anonymous Coward]

dictionary.com says:

pooh-pooh: To express contempt for or impatience about; make light of.

Re:Pooh-pooh?

[prowley]

"Poo-poo" is American adolescent idiom meaning excrement, as in "I went poo-poo in my diapers again!"

I pooh pooh your explaination: a) it is of British origin (and we have enough trouble wrestling our words off the French that you needn't think we will just stand idly by while you half inch them under our noses) - I believe a bastardization of the French for chamber pot, Po' Poh or something. b) only when speaking to small children is a pooh pooh a shit c) in this context it means to dismiss d) it also means a bad smell For a thorough useage of the term pooh pooh, please see Blackadder: Melchett: Well, bugger me with a fishfork! Old Darling, a Jerry morsetapper? What on Earth made you suspect him? Mary: Well, he pooh-poohed the captain here and said that he'd never find the spy. Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you? Edmund: Well, perhaps a little. Melchett: Well then, damn it all, how much more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court-martial offence! Edmund: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial. Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh -- he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment -- morale totally destroyed ... by pooh-pooh!

Re:Why is she saying this?

[LostCluster]

who's paying the bitch now?

The answer to that is on page 2 of the article...
Hilary Rosen, former chair and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, is a business and political commentator on CNBC and an adviser to media and technology companies.

Basically, she's a professional pundit now.

say it!

[poptones]

I went through that phase of hilary hating a loooong time ago. Then one day I went online and found MP3.com had launched their "digital vault" which (they argued) allowed them to offer ANY music for download to folks. It wasn't just that I thought this to be incredibly stupid and doomed to failure, but more than that it showed this "pioneer" just another ethically clueless money chasing adventure.

The RIAA sucks ass, and I'm proud to say I've not given them a penny of my money in years. I am a regular shopper at Magnatune and I'm seriously considering giving the gift of CC licensed music this year to a select few.

But as much as I hate the way the old school does business, the law (and consistency if we are serious about GPL) is on their side. No one forces artists to sign with (so called) major labels, and any band today has MANY opportunities to generate hype for themselves without making that sellout (oh, to have been there the day "The White Stripes" made that deal! Such a shame...)

I hate the way so many simply refuse to see the illogic in defending GPL and then insisting "we" should be able to broadcast their material in any way we see fit. Anyone who seriously believes in the GPL, the CC license etc should have no use AT ALL for "artwork" tied to any of those old school sharecropper licenses. Madona and Britney don't need our help, and redistributing their content only helps preserve the power of a system that has shown, at every turn, a strict unwillingness to adapt even while thus ensuring its own increased irrelevance.

This bit about Hillary is nothing new. Even when still with the RIAA we often heard of urgings to the old school publishers to adapt. They didn't listen then (thank goodness) let's hope they won't start now.

Re:Open Source Tunes

[jeffehobbs]

a legal torrent of which is here.

I like the David Byrne and the Le Tigre track, the rest is a little so-so, IMHO.

~jeff

Sexy Picture of Chris DiBona Enclosed

[Anonymous Coward]

a real sexy picture of Fat Bastard Chris DiBona

Re:Supporting rightsholders' decisions...

[uncoveror]

In case no one pointed this out yet, neither A in RIAA stands for artists. It is the Recording Industry Association of America.