Creative Commons kicked off their new Sampling License today. An artist can release work under the Sampling License to give other artists permission to use portions of the work, without re-distributing the entire original work verbatim. This presents a legal way for collage artists and remixers to borrow bits and bobs of existing work without paying royalties.
Finally, artists have a way to legally protect copyright in their work and still allow artists to do what they’ve been doing throughout recorded history: copying bits of each other’s work. I look forward to seeing what kind of impact this has on both music and the visual arts.
via Boing Boing
