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Meet Creative Commons.
Sampling
[*]People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Copying and distribution of the entire work is also prohibited.
Sampling Plus
[*]People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed. Hence, "plus".
Noncommercial Sampling Plus
[*]People can take and transform pieces of your work for noncommercial purposes only. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed.
Full details for each license here.
Now for the good stuff: Wired has a 16-song CD out in this month's issue with all songs under the CC license.
The songs are available here at 160kbps
The songs are also available at 256kbps (EAC/Lame) thanks to the generosity of pulse8.
Track list as follows:
The Wired CD
:01 Beastie Boys/ Now Get Busy
:02 David Byrne/ My Fair Lady
:03 Zap Mama/ Wadidyusay?
:04 My Morning Jacket/ One Big Holiday
:05 Spoon/ Revenge!
:06 Gilberto Gil/ Oslodum
:07 Dan the Automator/ Relaxation Spa Treatment
:08 Thievery Corporation/ DC 3000
:09 Le Tigre/ Fake French
:10 Paul Westerberg/ Looking Up in Heaven
:11 Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia/ No Meaning No
:12 The Rapture/ Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix)
:13 Cornelius/ Wataridori 2
:14 Danger Mouse & Jemini/ What U Sittin' On? (starring Cee Lo and Tha Alkaholiks)
:15 DJ Dolores/ Oslodum 2004
:16 Matmos/ Action at a Distance
That's it, go nuts. 🙂
Meet Creative Commons.
Creative Commons first considered offering a Sampling License at the suggestion of collagist People Like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) and Negativland, the appropriationist art collective that has since served as the public discussion lead during the license drafting process. During this process, and thanks to FGV Law School, we learned that Gilberto Gil, Brazil's Minister of Culture had long been thinking along similar lines. We combined these independent inspirations and, before long, had new licenses to offer to the public.
The Sampling licenses let artists and authors invite other people to use a part of their work and make it new.
For example:
To take a sample from one musician's song and include it in a new one.
To use a clip from a film and mix into your own video creation.
To take a piece of a photograph and put it into a new collage.
Think of it as a way for artists and authors to reward people for transforming their creativity into something it wasn't before.
Sampling
[*]People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Copying and distribution of the entire work is also prohibited.
Sampling Plus
[*]People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed. Hence, "plus".
Noncommercial Sampling Plus
[*]People can take and transform pieces of your work for noncommercial purposes only. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed.
Full details for each license here.
Now for the good stuff: Wired has a 16-song CD out in this month's issue with all songs under the CC license.
The songs are available here at 160kbps
The songs are also available at 256kbps (EAC/Lame) thanks to the generosity of pulse8.
Track list as follows:
The Wired CD
:01 Beastie Boys/ Now Get Busy
:02 David Byrne/ My Fair Lady
:03 Zap Mama/ Wadidyusay?
:04 My Morning Jacket/ One Big Holiday
:05 Spoon/ Revenge!
:06 Gilberto Gil/ Oslodum
:07 Dan the Automator/ Relaxation Spa Treatment
:08 Thievery Corporation/ DC 3000
:09 Le Tigre/ Fake French
:10 Paul Westerberg/ Looking Up in Heaven
:11 Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia/ No Meaning No
:12 The Rapture/ Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix)
:13 Cornelius/ Wataridori 2
:14 Danger Mouse & Jemini/ What U Sittin' On? (starring Cee Lo and Tha Alkaholiks)
:15 DJ Dolores/ Oslodum 2004
:16 Matmos/ Action at a Distance
That's it, go nuts. 🙂