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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, at 10:20AM, David M. Berry 
<d.berry AT sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

>This feels like a really bad office joke. 

I think that's probably the best comparison.

>It feels cliquey, 

That would be a complaint I have. But if they'd sent the clip in private it 
would have got out and people would've complained about CC being secretive or 
whatever.

>sounds  
>like it was recorded on someones office desktop computer in Microsoft  
>Office OneNote 2003 and mixed in the lunch-break.  

The right to create doesn't carry a responsibility to create a great work of 
art. So some lawyers wanted to make a techno track of "Happy Birthday", had 
fun doing so, and it came out sounding about as you'd expect? Good for them. 
:-)

>Somewhere, someone  
>in CC should have looked at it and said no way.

I find the idea amusing (I've no interest in actually listening to the 
track). And it is a good illustration of the problems of 'permission 
culture'. 

Cliqueiness and low quality may work against it, but lots of blogs have 
picked up the ridiculous-copyright-law issue. On balance, I think this is 
constructive.

- Rob.