new links

Just added three new links: CCalm Down, Relax. CCalm Down, Relax is "A weblog on netlabels, independent record labels and artists, Creative Commons".
The second is a link to a "List of projects using Creative Commons licenses". This is a list of CC-licensed projects in several media like journalism, cartography, movies, news, music, ... It's a wiki, so you can add your own contribution.
The last link is a blog about netlabels: XpRm.NeT "a company of enthusiasts, who likes a wide range of electronic experimental music, from experimental techno to noise, idm and hardcore." All CC licensed.

Gerry Faulhaber: "Copyright is a dead letter"

"Copyright is a very big issue in the legal world today, but in the business world, when you talk to consumers about protecting copyrights, it's a dead issue," he said. "It's gone. If you have a business model based on copyright, forget it." This and more quotes about copyright you can find in this article "Copyright is dead".

Netwaves: made in China

well euh, a sort of, we did our very best to find some Chinese related netlabel stuff, and here is the result (you can also listen in the flashplayer top right, episode 73). This is also the last episode for this season. We slowly restart in september, to get in full speed in October with a nice surprise ...

Playlist:

01. 3pm - Zenlu
02. Ideal of Maoism - Red Unit
03. Sunset - Red Unit
04. Reds in FarEast - Red Unit
05. Sweet - 48V
06. bamboo room - Blue Lotus Dream
07. I Want to China - Chikiss
08. danger signal - Double Fish
09. chao phraya express - Blue Lotus Dream
10. The ghost of cartoon monster - Chapi Chapo & Les Petites Musiques de Pluie
11. Firecrackers - Red Hot Wok
12. 1 - Siba

Gilberto Gil and CC

photo by Joi Ito

Gilberto Gil, one of the godfathers of Bossa nova in Brasil, tells: "The author laws, the author rights, I mean, they belong to�the way they are set and the laws are written and applied and everything, that all belongs to a previous period, you know, previous time, an analog, so to speak, an analog time. Now, the digital area, the digital era enable us to extend and expand cultural products and cultural goods and cultural possibilities to a level that we�we have to also rewrite and reshape the legal framework and the regulatory framework, so that it can adjust to the new possibilities. That�s what Creative Commons is about, bringing possibilities to manage their own work, you know, to the creators, so that the songwriters, the theater play writers, the book writers, and so and so, can have the possibilities to manage their own work and say�and determine what their work will serve for."

CC blog
interview on Democracy Now!