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Free Music - The Big Picture
It's not about free music. And it's not about piracy. It's about the democratization of access.
copyright, intellectual property, software, music, movies
Cases get thrown out of court at an early stage because the Prosicutor called an infringement of the Copyright Act 'theft'. The natural state with respect to digital files (as opposed to tangible objects) is that they can be cheaply copied without damaging the original or depriving the owner of it or its use. Copyright is a government welfare/subsidy program for writers, artists, etc. It says that we will use government power to prevent people from doing an easy thing (making a copy of something on their computer) in order to transfer wealth to writers, etc. That may be a fine and wise social policy. But failing to abide by an artificial ban on copying is not "theft" or "stealing" in any but the most highly attenuated sense.It is not theft. The elements of the offence are fairly simple. Theft includes 'to permanantly deprive a person of access to his asset'. This obviously does not apply. The crime of robbery include violence, actual or threatened. The idea that creative people will not produce stuff unless they make money from it is empirically false; a counterexample is the SourceForge project, which hosts free software projects. http://sourceforge.net/about
About the rising power of the audience.
Don't pay attention to the mainstream pundits. They're just looking to save their jobs, and are no different from Universal or Sony BMG. They want it the way it's always been. But it's never going to be that way again.
Consumers have a “fair use” right to make a copy of their media collection.
Orientation - Plagiarism in Dylan, or a Cultural Collage?
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
- Free Music Downloads - You are on this page now.
- Waves including how to embed sound into your page
- Lyrics For Every Song
- Free Music Education Sites
- Common License Copyright Free Compostion Lawrence Lessig's (founder of the creative commons) Huge and important news: free licenses upheld.
- "This song is Copyrighted" in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. This Land is Your Land.
- Music Law - Courtney Love Manifesto
Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. - MP3 “The Future of Digital Music: Is There an Upside to Downloading?” Statement of Roger McGuinn Songwriter and Musician Formerly with The Byrds. McGuinn's Folk Den Giving It Away all the BitTorrents that offer legal Free Music.
- US Copyright Law: Over View, Fair Use, Public Domain, Resources, Copyright, Copyleft, Commons
- Free Software
- Open Source
- Digital Rights Management: DRM Free Songs