Re: [microsound] a few bastards

[Steve Polta <stevepolta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry if everyone knows about this but there is
actually a movement (I guess you could call it)
towards encouraging this sort of prepermission to
re-use materials being advocayed by an outfit known as
Creative Commons (www.creativcommons.org), in which
artists of all media may specifially grant permission
to re-use, in very specific ways, their work, from
anonymous sampling, to credited sampling to free
not-for-profit distribution to the common "not at all"
restrictions. While I doubt that many litigious labels
(and their lawyers) will get behind this, cc
(established by innovative copyright attorney Lawrence
Lesig), is really catching on, spec. in the
"plunderphonic" community.

There's also a groovy section of tha site for free
sharing of
samples...(http://www.opsound.org/opsound/pool.html)
> >
> No, you missed the point, sort of...
> 
> Producers should be able to CHOOSE whether they want
> this or not.
> 
> Unfortunately producers need to make these choices
> in advance, obviously 
> the I hope I don't get sued for this mix idea isn't
> a good idea. 
> 
> But mixes are a good thing, in fact I love them. 
> Nothing like a good DJ 
> to recontextualize and get me interested in new
> music.  Yes bad mixes 
> exist, but trust me It's hard to enforce a license
> that says - only use 
> this on good, innovative, and interesting mix tapes.
> 
> By making it clear whether they want songs on a mix
> or not in advance 
> and hopefully on the record producers can make this
> known.  Whether or 
> not this is a good idea for any individual producer
> depends on how they 
> percieve a relatively complicated economic model. 
> (or just follow what 
> they want to do, or think will work on a hunch.) 
> Really the best 
> economists are struggling no figure out how to work
> human desire into 
> modelled systems.  Neoclassical on just assumes
> people do things for 
> money, which only part of the story.
> 
> The RIAA is enforcing these copyrights without
> asking what producers 
> want (and possibly with an agenda).  That means
> since the musicians, 
> labels and producers never specified, the RIAA is
> free to run around 
> suing people for using music that the original
> artist may or may not 
> them to.
> 
> The RIAA, once again, has thus deprived them of
> choice.  That's my 
> point.  By leaving the issue of mixtapes on an
> informal basis they left 
> open a way to let the RIAA attack the music scene.
> 
> Imagine, you simply try and write something to the
> effect of...
> 
> -Included with the purchase of this record is a
> non-exclusive license to 
> include this work on a mixtape that is copied 500
> times or less.  Club 
> use is unlimited.  Contact the label for inclusion
> of mixes that will be 
> reproduced over 500 times.
> 
> OR
> 
> -Please contact the label to negotiate the inclusion
> of this work on a 
> mixtape for public release.
> 
> See, this way you'd get to choose!  As oppossed to
> waiting for some 
> government flunkys to go after your favorite DJ.
> 
> Wierder you could even work the percieved cost of
> this limited license 
> into the record you sell.  Now a bunch of this might
> seem like the last 
> thing on any label owners mind, which is why I'd
> like to see a standard 
> form contract that would eliminate the problems for
> small buisnesses.
> 
> Please don't print any of this on a record and
> expect it to have legal 
> effect, between the international copyright issues,
> the fact this is an 
> unsettled point of law, and I have finished law
> school yet.  It would be 
> bad.  But you get the idea, labels can strike back
> against the RIAA, if 
> they want to and with a little help.
> 
> Rob
> 
>
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