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Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the popular-to-be-free dept.

minitrue writes "Pearl Jam released their first music video in quite a while under a Creative Commons license allowing anyone to "legally copy, distribute and share the clip" for noncommercial purposes. Creative Commons thinks this may be the first video produced by a major label ever to be CC-licensed. So although the file is only available as a free download via Google Video through May 24, fans can continue sharing it online themselves in perpetuity."

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  1. Won't somebody think of the lost sales? by Sathias · · Score: 4, Funny

    By releasing this for free I'm sure they would be missing out on some lost sales, maybe the RIAA will sue them.

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  2. Brilliant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is genius! If the concept of a video is to promote your album, why not make it free to distribute? I mean MTV isn't going to play it unless your target audience are preteens. And even then they'll only show 30 seconds of it with somebody saying something stupid like "OMG! Ponies!" in the background.

  3. Re:Harvey Danger by Firehed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Almost every album on the planet is distributed via BitTorrent. Some less legally than others, I suppose, but they're still there.

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