wtf - in which a record label pulls an album off a band's (Cloudkicker, who I've enjoyed releases by in the past) Bandcamp page which is available by Creative Commons "attribution" and rips it to vinyl and sells it as a mystery record, without the band's direct permission.
The hell? Plus anyone who buys the LP can use it for whatever money making purpose they wish so long as they properly attribute it under the Creative Commons agreement? This is crazy.
Couple of interesting snippets if you follow through to the label's account:
we will collect on the profits and donate a percentage of all earnings to the artist themselves, paying them through Bandcamp (so that Bandcamp gets a cut), and making a donation to both Creative Commons and Wikipedia (who made this possible).
well, that doesn't justify it but at least makes them potentially a little less evil.
More perturbing, is that the artist had refused earlier requests from this label to re-release their work, and had posted to their blog:
I just changed all the Creative Commons licenses on Bandcamp to the least restrictive possible, or "Attribution." Basically this means that you can do *whatever you want* with my music so long as you attribute it to me in some way. (emphasis added)
I am no Creative Commons expert, but is not a major part of those licenses that you use (with atrribution) but not resell? Hopefully the band is on the phone with a good copyright atty.
Just yesterday, an otherwise very intelligent friend told me that she was having problems with videos she made for Facebook. She kept getting takedown notices because of the copyrighted music she used in the videos--even though she had paid to buy those songs as mp3s!! So unfair. I pointed her in the direction of CC and the Free Music Archive...
The last line is scary. OTOH, if this ad had any success based solely on the musical skills described therein, I need a change of career: I could be raking in the dough.
Those lads look like they have fine vocabularies indeed. It does seem like the rhyming would stretch the old vocab.
I do know some the names of some rappers, anyway. For example, there has been a good bit of Chief Keef news in the local paper lately, most of it not so good.
The thing with his cousin is disturbing, ominous, and all too typical of what goes in the neighborhood where he's from. Hopefully he is getting good advice from some grown-ups somewhere, but if so it's not very apparent. Reactions of neighbors in the posh North Shore suburb where he's living to having a rap star in their midst have been more amusing.
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More perturbing, is that the artist had refused earlier requests from this label to re-release their work, and had posted to their blog: The label seems in total breach of that.
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Just yesterday, an otherwise very intelligent friend told me that she was having problems with videos she made for Facebook. She kept getting takedown notices because of the copyrighted music she used in the videos--even though she had paid to buy those songs as mp3s!! So unfair. I pointed her in the direction of CC and the Free Music Archive...
Did You Download 250 GBs of Music By the Crash Test Dummies?
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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
[Personally never heard of most of these guys, including the far-in-front winner.]
Here's a picture I took of Aesop Rock last year:
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Although you probably knew him.
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:-(
I do know some the names of some rappers, anyway. For example, there has been a good bit of Chief Keef news in the local paper lately, most of it not so good.
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Behold, Sapce Jazz, by L. Ron Hubbard.
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The cover art from the only album by Lord Cut-Glass (aka Alun Woodward, formerly of the Delgados), released in June 2009:
Anyway, I thought it was funny... it's not just the same painting ("Scotland Forever" by Lady Elizabeth Butler), it's actually the same crop.
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Not quite as identical, but the former one is an album by Nudge, the latter by Explosions in the Sky.
Recording made by "playing" tree rings and running the results through Ableton.