tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post1923122679323612445..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: I would prefer not...Daniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-58953157936369650672010-12-03T01:06:10.088+01:002010-12-03T01:06:10.088+01:00I agree that we should be able to prefer not to ha...I agree that we should be able to prefer not to have our work recycled, parodied, plundered, mashed, remixed, and all that. There's another matter: the ease with which work can now be reproduced and published (on the Internet, via pirate recordings or copies) makes it inevitable that work can become corrupted, whether intentionally or purely accidentally. And how's the viewer/listener/web browser to know?Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-32541609039850813202010-11-21T20:44:55.076+01:002010-11-21T20:44:55.076+01:00Decency is a very important point.
One has only t...Decency is a very important point.<br /> One has only to look at the case of Flutist and composer James Newton and his case against the Beastie Boys.<br /> When he lost, he decided he would never play flute publicly again.<br /> He was extremely hurt and no one seems to care or even acknowledge that the world has now lost an artist of such skill.<br />One time i heard my music use in a mash up i could only think that what they used made them sound better and myself worse.Kraig Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234783065045199904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-84015151385718626672010-11-20T21:45:15.017+01:002010-11-20T21:45:15.017+01:00ImprovFriday is a site devoted to the posting of n...ImprovFriday is a site devoted to the posting of new music created each week by members specifically for an IF event. http://www.improvfriday.ning.com <br /><br />All pieces are posted under Creative Commons attribution 3.0 and many of the participants remix the pieces posted - and then post the resulting mashup as part of the same IF event. <br /><br />Anyone who posts a piece but does not want it included in a mash - simply places NMC after the title. And this seems to work out pretty well.<br /><br />Anyone posting a mix or mash from posted works has to identify the creators of the component pieces. <br /><br />We've been doing this for over a year and a lot of good works have been created with no problems. IF is not a commercial or money-making operation, but even so it is one example of how the future can be made to work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-72896445634138518102010-11-20T21:20:37.966+01:002010-11-20T21:20:37.966+01:00Lessig's book Remix was the subject of Molly S...Lessig's book <i>Remix</i> was the subject of Molly Sheridan's first blogger book club, over at Mind the Gap. I read most of it and really had to resist the temptation to throw it against the wall. I am opposed to perpetual copyright, and I believe the current system is crazy, but his claim that re-use as soon as possible is a requirement of the current art scene struck me as disingenuous and willfully ignorant of how musical and visual artists operate. <br /><br />His real purpose seems to be to protect from legal trouble kids who take and use others' songs and images in their own remixes. This dovetails nicely with what you say about character and decency: why aren't their parents teaching their children that they need to contact artists and obtain permission? That the fact that they can rip music to MP3 and do as they please with it doesn't mean they <i>should</i>?Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.com