10/27/2004 08:14:00 AM|||Joe|||There's been a lot of rumblings lately about Creative Commons. And now, even Hilary Rosen digs it.

For those who don't know, Creative Commons is a collection of licenses that people can select from to attach to their art. They're designed to allow the artist to specify how their art can be used. The idea is that you could, for example, license a song that other people can create derivative art for commercial purposes, but they have to give you credit.

I'm going to start attaching some of these licenses to some of my stuff — songs in particular. The Povert vids are going to be trickier. Out of 8 videos, there's only 4 that I could probably legally attach any sort of license to. The other 4 have songs or substantial portions of songs which are copyrighted. A little person like myself can never hope to get a license for those. I'm not using them for any sort of commercial purpose, so I've never worried about it, but it'd be nice if some of those songs were licensed with a CC license. The RIAA could, as it stands, tell me to remove those vids, or at least remove the songs from the vids. Which would suck.

The vids that I can license either have no music or they have music which I've otherwise got permission to use. Or can get. And now I can make my own crap with Garageband and my MIDI keyboard. So there. Or I can just talk Pat into whipping something up. He's already come up with the theme for “Zambridge”. And yes, I may put something about that up soon.

Zambridge — Cleaning up the streets...
with a VENGEANCE!

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