Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

[tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>]

Hi, Nelson:  Thank you for your consideration.  I'll forward a formal
invitation by postal mail to the address posted on your web page.

If you accept the formal invitation, which will include your
acknowledgement that you will put school matters first, or face a stern
lecture from the Board, we'll proceed.  :)

I'll put up a "pending" posting for your review this weekend, and alert
you.  The formal invitation should arrive at your address sometime next
week.

Thanks, again, 
Tom

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:12, Nelson Pavlosky wrote:
> I'd be honored to be on your advisory board!  But I'm not sure what 
> exactly that would entail.  Could you go into more detail?  I am very 
> busy trying not to flunk out of school while I do all of my activism.
> 
> ~Nelson Pavlosky~
> 
> tom poe wrote:
> 
> >Hi, Nelson:  I enjoyed a warm moment in my tummy, today.  Learned that
> >you were actively involved with college student awareness of copyright
> >abuse by corporate thugs.
> >
> >SONG STORM was created as a model for what we think future music portals
> >might look like.  All services are free.  We're a nonprofit project of
> >Open Studios, a 501(c)(3) organization located in Reno, Nevada.  The
> >idea behind SONG STORM is to provide listeners with playlists by
> >Independent Artists and other listeners.  These songs then can be
> >"discovered" by listeners visiting the site.  From there it's just a
> >click to learn more about the artist, a click to get directly to the
> >artist's site, or a click to get to Internet Stations that play those
> >songs, or similar music.  
> >
> >In other words, why join and pay money to corporate middlemen, when you
> >can purchase directly from the Independent Artist?  The infrastructure
> >is legally sound (no pun intended) when accompanied by licensing options
> >from the Creative Commons Project, and/or uploaded songs the artist
> >wants posted on the Internet to repositories such as www.archive.org .
> >
> >P2P networks, like gnomoradio.org; web sites like Webjay; Internet
> >Stations by the tens of thousands around the world, all spell happiness
> >and a new world for music and Independent Artists.  No need for
> >middlemen, just a little Netiquette about utilizing tools that quickly
> >identify songs to be shared, and artists to contact to arrange for
> >commercial use.  That's the message the RIAA and major record labels
> >don't want delivered.  I hope you deliver it, my young friend.
> >
> >In the meantime, I'd sure like the opportunity to formally invite you to
> >join our Advisory Board at Open Studios.  It would be an easy way for
> >you to learn about what we do in assisting communities to build and
> >operate community-based recording studios (it's the lynchpin,
> >if-you-will, that creates the alternative infrastructure for Arts &
> >Culture in the Digital Age), and we, in turn, would have the famous
> >Diebold slayer on our Advisory Board!
> >
> >Anyway, check us out when you have time:
> >Open Studios
> >www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
> >SONG STORM
> >www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/php/playlist.php 
> >
> >Keep up the good work, and let me know if we can help in any way.
> >Tom Poe
> >Director
> >Open Studios
> >Reno, NV, USA
> >www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/ 
> >
> >
> >  
> >