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["Glenn Otis Brown" <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

> http://creativecommons.org
> 
> CREATIVE COMMONS AND NEGATIVLAND BEGIN WORK ON FREE SAMPLING AND COLLAGE
> LICENSE
> 
> The Silicon Valley Nonprofit Also Rolls Out New Model for Community
> Participation
> 
> Palo Alto, California, USA - May 29, 2003 - Creative Commons, a nonprofit
> dedicated to building a layer of reasonable copyright, announced today
> that it would begin development of the Sampling License, a copyright tool
> designed to let artists encourage the creative transformation of their
> work, for profit or otherwise. Leading the public discussion and
> development of the license is Negativland, practitioners of "found sound"
> music as well as other forms of media manipulation. 
> 
> Glenn Otis Brown, Creative Commons Executive Director, commented: "The
> Sampling License is among the most exciting projects we've taken on so
> far. The technology and culture of the Net already facilitate the
> remixing of culture. The law does not, so we're helping it catch up by
> remixing copyright itself." 
> 
> When completed, the Sampling License will allow people to create collage
> art and "mash-ups" - as well as other art forms based on re-used
> materials - from licensed works. Like all of Creative Commons copyright
> tools, the Sampling License will be made available for free to the public
> from the organization's website.
> 
> "There's a crucial difference between bootlegging another's work and the
> creative transformation of it." Negativland said. "Collage is a technique
> that has an undisputed currency in virtually all art forms today.
> Originally, copyright was designed to prohibit the piracy or bootlegging
> of complete works; that was and remains a worthy goal. But copyright is
> now also routinely used to prohibit collage, as if it were no different
> from outright piracy. With Creative Commons, we're trying to build a
> license that will allow copyright holders to invite transformation of
> their works - even for money - while preventing this sort of verbatim
> bootlegging."
> 
> Negativland is Creative Commons' first Project Lead, a role central to
> the organization's new community development model. As Creative Commons
> identifies new projects, Project Leads will drive public discussion from
> the Creative Commons website. 
> 
> "Creative Commons is a public laboratory for new ideas," said Lawrence
> Lessig, Chairman of Creative Commons and professor of law at Stanford.
> "By having real-life practitioners like Negativland lead volunteer
> discussion groups, we've come up with a nice way to build on the great
> ideas among our supporters." 
> 
> Creative Commons will soon announce new Project Leads for an Education
> License, a Developing Nations License, and others. The nonprofit plans to
> extend the Project Leads model into technological developments as well. 
> 
> More about Creative Commons
> 
> A nonprofit corporation, Creative Commons promotes the creative re-use of
> intellectual works - whether owned or public domain. It is sustained by
> the generous support of The Center for the Public Domain and the John D.
> and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Creative Commons is based at
> Stanford Law School, where it shares staff, space, and inspiration with
> the school's Center for Internet and Society. 
> 
> For general information, visit <http://creativecommons.org>.
> 
> To follow the progress of the Sampling License discussion group, visit
> <http://creativecommons.org/discuss>.
> 
> About Negativland
> 
> The experimental music and art collective known as Negativland has been
> recording music/audio/collage works since 1979, producing a weekly 3-hour
> radio show ("Over The Edge") since 1981, hosting a World Wide Web site
> since 1995, and performing live on occasional tours throughout America
> and Europe. They have released 15 CDs, one video and one book (Fair Use:
> The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2) since 1980.
> 
> Negativland's particular musical practice incorporates found sounds and
> musical samples into their collage compositions. This contemporary
> interest in collage (a hallmark of 20th Century art of all kinds) stems
> in part from fact that art and commerce have now merged to a degree where
> corporations finance, groom, direct, filter, manufacture and distribute
> almost everything we know of as "culture." This inevitably uncomfortable
> partnership of art and commerce to produce "mass culture" means that art
> is no longer an independent creation. It is now instigated, owned,
> operated, and promoted by administrators, subsumed by demographic
> targeting, and subjected to economically inspired "guidelines" for
> creation.
> 
> For more information, visit <http://negativland.com>.
> 
> More about the Project Leads model at 
> <http://creativecommons.org/discuss>.
> 
> Contact
> 
> Glenn Otis Brown
> Executive Director (Palo Alto)
> 1.650.723.7572 (tel)
> 1.415.336.1433 (cell)
> glenn AT creativecommons.org
> 
> Negativland
> dj AT webbnet.com
> markhosler AT charter.net
> 
> http://creativecommons.org
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> Glenn Otis Brown
> Executive Director
> Creative Commons
> glenn AT creativecommons.org
> +1.650.723.7572 (telephone)
> +1.415.336.1433 (mobile)
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Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org
+1.650.723.7572 (telephone)
+1.415.336.1433 (mobile)

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