Recently I've become fascinated with the creative commons
<
http://www.creativecommons.org> licenses. For me this is a movement
that recognizes artist's desire to protect their work, but also to share
it with the world in such a way that not only works for the consumer of
the art, but indeed *empowers* them to consume and use the art in ways
the artist sees fit. This is realization of a legal way to /copyleft
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft>/ my artistic output. It's very
similar to the Open Source software worlds
So I've made some sweeping changes to this site
<
http://xenlab.ezrpm.com/> and the way I share and distribute my art.
Well, not so sweeping in anything that you can 'see' but really in the
way I want to empower you dear reader to consume, reuse, sample,
destroy, create derivative works, and save, broadcast and share the art
in any way you see fit.
It's sort of a multi-prong attack:
. All the tracks that are posted here are now archived on archive.org
<
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=xenlab_-_demo&collection=opensource_audio>
. This site and it's content is now clearly licensed under the Creative
Commons sampling+ License. I've linked to the license in human, legal,
and machine readable formats, as needed. Please note that quoted
material in my blog, and the content on the sites I link to is not
covered under this license, obviously. However, everything from my
XHTML/CSS source code, to the graphics, to the tracks of mine that I
post are all explicitly meant to be released and shared under the
creative commons license
<
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/>.
. I'm in the process of adding Bit Torrent <
http://www.bittorrent.com>
downloads of all the tracks I post. This is still in the testing phase,
but I invite all of you to download my tracks via the torrent links in
the .music section and help me seed them for a while. New to Bit
Torrent? Check out this FAQ <
http://dessent.net/btfaq/> to get started.
It's a file swarming p2p protocol, and it's the fuckin' bee's knees for
sure.
I hope you enjoy these changes. Comment at my blog
<
http://xenlab.ezrpm.com/index.php?id=41> on send me an email: eric (at)
ezrpm (dot) com ... I'd love to hear what you think about these changes.
This is actually something I've been planning to do for a while. Now is
the time. I invite you to explore more about CC
<
http://www.creativecommons.org> and copylefting in general, and if
you're an artist or label owner - abandon the increasingly draconian
Copyright system and move in a direction that fosters not only
creativity, but protects your art and art - *itself* - in a way that is
inopressive and let's art be free... even if you plan on charging money
for it, now or later.
My apologies if you receive this more than once. I thought this message
warranted cross-posting to lists that I'm active on.
--
mad love,
.eric
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