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The idea of sharing certain rights for music, films
and photographs is inspired by the “open source” movement
in the software industry. Programmers began speaking out against the
current copyright law, which seals up the software’s source code
from further use for decades, as more and more technology companies
were forced out of business.
Copyright law is putting the years spent building software for companies
that have failed to waste, open source advocates say.
Musicians have started using the open content idea to both market
themselves and to collaborate with others. Soundclick, a partner site
of Creative Commons, saw 70,000 uploads of new songs in one month. In
that time, Soundclick has issued 30,000 new Creative Commons licenses,
according to the Creative Commons web site September 14.
Evan Lawrence, one of the winners of the Creative Commons remix contest,
has his new song “Conscience Revisited” available at his
web site—free of charge, of course.
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