Francis, I changed the last para, thanks for the correction.
Gary, it's interesting that you're so generous on your site with the x-eleven material, inviting people to download it, mash it up, etc, but such a hard case defending the rights of U2 against Negativland. I don't think it's clear cut by any means that Negativland "took someone's property and attempted to profit from it." From the interview with Negativland and The Edge it's pretty clear that U2 didn't think it was so clear cut either.
And I don't agree that most creative people want
to be multimillion dollar corporate rockstars.
I've read enough articles about record companies basically acting like the "company store" to artists (Courtney Love's really crunches some numbers) to convince me the industry is indeed evil, if evil means greedy, corrupt, criminally inefficient... When did the price of CDs drop? Too much fat at the top.
Voluntary collective licensing sounds like the way to go for online. I'm for alternatives to the corporate model. I really hope iTunes doesn't become the sole means of online music distribution out of laziness, inertia, or the bandwagon effect. I like that there are lots of "pirate" alternatives out there. But then I'm not releasing a record on iTunes.
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Gary, it's interesting that you're so generous on your site with the x-eleven material, inviting people to download it, mash it up, etc, but such a hard case defending the rights of U2 against Negativland. I don't think it's clear cut by any means that Negativland "took someone's property and attempted to profit from it." From the interview with Negativland and The Edge it's pretty clear that U2 didn't think it was so clear cut either.
And I don't agree that most creative people want to be multimillion dollar corporate rockstars.
I've read enough articles about record companies basically acting like the "company store" to artists (Courtney Love's really crunches some numbers) to convince me the industry is indeed evil, if evil means greedy, corrupt, criminally inefficient... When did the price of CDs drop? Too much fat at the top.
Voluntary collective licensing sounds like the way to go for online. I'm for alternatives to the corporate model. I really hope iTunes doesn't become the sole means of online music distribution out of laziness, inertia, or the bandwagon effect. I like that there are lots of "pirate" alternatives out there. But then I'm not releasing a record on iTunes.
- tom moody 9-12-2005 6:35 am