Why does everything get reduced to the most simplistic binary argument, especially when discussing content? It’s seems like when content and rights holders enter the picture, 90% of bloggers turn retarded and unnecessarily polemic. Except of course when it’s their content and rights.
[From Muxtape v1.0, RIP]
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It’s seems like when content and rights holders enter the picture, 90% of bloggers turn retarded and unnecessarily polemic. Except of course when it’s their content and rights.
For your information, Jason Kottke licenses all his content with a Creative Commons license. I wonder how many years must we wait until the majors start adopting the same kind of flexible, copyleft licenses…
“Everything on kottke.org, except those items listed below or specifically noted otherwise, is licensed by Jason Kottke under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Creative Commons license. This means you may take texts, photos, bits of code, etc. covered by the license and do with them as you wish as long as you provide credit and release the new work under the same license. I’m doing this because when something appears on my site, I’ve often done as much as I can with it and I’d like to see what others might do with it.”
Posted 26 Sep 2008 at 8:05 am ¶imagine if someone used his content without attribution, in an advertisement, without compensation or notification or permission
Posted 26 Sep 2008 at 8:48 am ¶What I find frustrating about this is not that the labels want to get paid for the content they own (they have a right and an obligation to do so), but that the labels seemingly have no control over the RIAA. It would seem that it would have been in the labels’ best interests to have worked out a deal with Muxtape, which was apparently going to happen until the RIAA stepped in and forcibly shut down the site, effectively ending negotiations.
I never actually used Muxtape so whether it’s here or not is irrelevant to me, but surely there’s a better tact that the RIAA can be taking, and the labels do not appear to be doing anything to push them in that direction.
Posted 26 Sep 2008 at 10:31 am ¶Post a Comment