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Re: [microsound] shades of grey
> giant can of worms.
One of my favorites. What was that chief seattle quote? "The earth does
not belong to us, we belong to the earth."
I am not a very extreme person when it comes to my actions but I believe
in social anarchy. Why? because it's all I see. Do what thou wilt shall
be the whole of the law. This is natures way. We construct all sorts of
rules that we deem "laws" and then assume they actually are laws. The
fact is that anyone can do anything at any time but most of us choose to
respect each other enough not to cause violence.
Do you ask the birds permission to record their song? or exhaust vents or
whatever. No you don't. Do they care? They don't give a flying donut.
I think that if you are concerned about something being reproduced then
don't release it to the public. It's going to get used and resused and
reused.
This is the era of Microsoft or my-crosoft. My, my, my. Everyone wants
to draw a line down the middle of the room and say, "This is my half and
that's your half."
Anyone interested in writing a free-music license, similar to the GNU
General Public License?
free your music and your mind will follow,
elisha
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>> since when did live pa's include playing other peoples tracks?
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> giant can of worms. at what point in the processing of an audio file
> created by someone else does the work become "your own"? or in a
> programming context, if I take one of your patches and make a few
> changes, is it now mine? perhaps most importantly, are ownership
> scruples like this keeping us honest, or holding us back?
>
> for the record, my music making - live and otherwise - almost always
> makes use of data from music that I did not create. sometimes it's
> subtle and sometimes it's blatant.
>
> bbn
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