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Iona College Journalism Dept.

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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