Tag Archive for 'licensing'

Danish Label Releases Physical Album under Creative Commons

Published on January 23, 2008 in Work. 0 Comments

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The day before yesterday the Danish record label Urlyd claimed to have been the first to release a physical album under a Creative Commons license. The album Small Arm of Sea (2008) by singer/producer Tone will simultaneously be available as a deluxe CD/DVD or old-fashioned vinyl and as a free and legal download. The physical editions of the album also have the words “Copy this album for your friends, please!” printed on them. This all has been made possible by using a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license and the support of KODA. This Danish music copyright collecting society will take care of the commercial exploitation of the music.

A great example of how free distribution of music can be combined with commercial exploitation! It also shows how online rhetoric is influencing the offline world and our society and culture in general.

For the Dutch readers, I would however like to refer to some controversy about Urlyd claiming the first physical release under a Creative Commons license.

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Open Letter to Remind the EU that DRM Died (for a Reason)

Published on January 8, 2008 in Work. 0 Comments

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It almost seems that even the – normally utterly ignorant – Big Four understand the ‘problem’ of media piracy better than the European Union. While as we speak all major record labels have decided to give up on DRM, EU commissioner Viviane Reding has announced the plan to create a single European-wide market for online media content protected by a “truly interoperable, consumer friendly DRM system”. I think most people who know something about DRM will agree this plan is outdated, unfriendly to EU citizens and simply deemed to fail. DRM is defective by design!

To help remind the EU that DRM died in 2007, please sign this open letter!

For the Dutch readers who don’t know what DRM is all about, please read the article Wat is (er mis) met DRM? I wrote for Netcultuur.

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