Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Danyl Strype <strypey AT riseup.net>]

Kia ora koutou

Was just searching for something else and stumbled on this CD of  
CC-licensed tunes put out by Wired magazine to promote CC licensing.  
It features some big name artists (Beastie Boys, David Byrne of  
Talking Heads, Le Tigre, Dan the Automater of Gorillaz fame) and uses  
the sampling licenses, a newer set of licenses aimed at giving artists  
more licensing options around derivative works.
http://creativecommons.org/wired/

How about we put something similar together to promote CC Aotearoa? We  
could talk to lots of kiwi musicians and try to find at least a few  
big names who are willing to support what we're doing. The first  
people I'd approach would be Loop Recordings who may be keen to help  
us with production and distribution.

In the interim we could produce our own distribution of the Wired CD,  
although the non-commercial license means we would need funding of  
some kind to cover the costs of blank CDs and making the covers.

If we do either of these projects I think it would be neat to put  
digital files of the songs on the CD as well. Although the licenses  
would allow people to rip them from CD and distribute them anyway, we  
could have them encoded in open formats (eg .ogg Vorbis or .ogg FLAC)  
with some information about .ogg support (software, plugins etc) and  
the advantages of open standards.

If anyone thinks this is a worthy idea, how about talking to anyone  
you know in the music scene about it and see if you can whip up some  
interest?

RnB
Strypey

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