[cc-community] Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music

Lucas Gonze lucas.gonze at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 22:19:18 EST 2007


On Nov 17, 2007 12:08 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 17 November 2007 12:37:23 Marcus Estes wrote:
> > >With the advent of the digital age, both musicians and authors have to
> > > go back to live performance for an income.
> >
> > It's exactly this kind of "digital manifest destiny" that makes many
> > artists view the free culture movement with suspicion.
>
> What they ought to view with suspicion is the ever more draconian copyright
> laws. A goodly number are possibly already felons or will be in the next
> iteration of improvements to the laws.

Musicians infringe at an incredible rate, far more than listeners,
because they have to borrow to survive.  For example, jazz singers
*have* to do standards, and since standards are virtually never in the
public domain a jazz singer can never put their own music on Myspace
legally.

-Lucas


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