rabid.audio

Documenting my work at the intersection of technology and music.

Creative Commons

Published: 11 Mar 2010

Note

This is an old post or draft which was migrated from my old blog. It may have broken links, and it definitely has questionable opinions. Consume at your own risk.

I'm sure most of you have heard about Creative Commons, (especially if you read my last paper). For those of you who have not:
Creative Commons is an alternative to Copyright, similar to the GNU Licence, where you can choose what others can and cannot legally do with your work. Consider this idea applied to music. Piracy is no longer an issue, as you can (and are encouraged) to distribute such work.
For an example of such a licence, check the bottom of this page. This blog is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.


Randal Monroe has a little fun with the free distribution of work in his web comic (the joke runs from 341-346).