http://blaise.ca/blog/2007/10/13/getting-to-know-and-love-music-in-rainbows/ Searching for beauty in the dissonance Wed, 16 May 2012 01:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://blaise.ca/blog/2007/10/13/getting-to-know-and-love-music-in-rainbows/comment-page-1/#comment-2383 ßℓªï§£: Blog » Blog Archive » My commitment to free music, free culture Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:24:30 +0000 http://blaise.ca/blog/2007/10/13/getting-to-know-and-love-music-in-rainbows/#comment-2383 [...] Stallman seemed somewhat confused regarding the third category. He asserted the freedom to redistribute exact copies for non-commercial purposes (explicitly noting peer-to-peer music file sharing), was conflicted on the freedom to create derivative works, and believed that this was the one category where copyright was useful — for a limited time (ie. < 15 years) — to restrict commercial use as an incentive for creation. Regarding economics and music, he suggested that a system to voluntarily contribute money to artists (without the middleman) would be at least as effective in providing financial support to artists as the existing fragmented and crumbling business models. (Think Radiohead.) [...] [...] Stallman seemed somewhat confused regarding the third category. He asserted the freedom to redistribute exact copies for non-commercial purposes (explicitly noting peer-to-peer music file sharing), was conflicted on the freedom to create derivative works, and believed that this was the one category where copyright was useful — for a limited time (ie. < 15 years) — to restrict commercial use as an incentive for creation. Regarding economics and music, he suggested that a system to voluntarily contribute money to artists (without the middleman) would be at least as effective in providing financial support to artists as the existing fragmented and crumbling business models. (Think Radiohead.) [...]

]]> http://blaise.ca/blog/2007/10/13/getting-to-know-and-love-music-in-rainbows/comment-page-1/#comment-2343 ßℓªï§£: Blog » Blog Archive » Trent Reznor releases Nine Inch Nails album under a Creative Commons License Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:01:14 +0000 http://blaise.ca/blog/2007/10/13/getting-to-know-and-love-music-in-rainbows/#comment-2343 [...] Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license really differentiates this from other similar offerings, even Radiohead’s In Rainbows which involved tracks available at no cost (if you wished) but with all rights still technically [...] [...] Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license really differentiates this from other similar offerings, even Radiohead’s In Rainbows which involved tracks available at no cost (if you wished) but with all rights still technically [...]

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