Tag Archives: copyright

What a crappy present

There’s some great gift advice for parents at What a Crappy Present. Don’t buy your kids CDs from major record labels. You’re supporting an industry that uses graft as its primary business model, and chances are your kids have already downloaded those tunes, anyhow.

License to sample

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 [...]

Digital rights management rant

Passive Entertainment snapshot