Mark Hosler is a founding member of sound collage pioneers Negativland. He talks about their role in creating the Creative Commons sampling license, and on copyright + culture in general. VERY interesting stuff if you're at all interested in intellectual property issues.
If you're not familiar with Negativland, check out this video. They're perhaps most famous for getting sued by U2. I also highly recommend you pick up a copy of No Business, their first cd with no original material whatsoever. Plunderlicious!
Mark Hosler is in Minneapolis for Negativlandland, a group exhibition which opened May 12 at Creative Electric Studios. It's a brilliant exhibit - go check it out on a Saturday, through June 10.
Posted by Minnesota Stories on May 13, 2006 11:32 AM
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Excellent. I've been a big fan of these guys for years. I had no idea that they had contributed to CC. Very interesting. Thanks Chuck and see you at Vloggercon!
I am confused. How is paid advertising different than creating a works for commercial gain?
I still don't understand the problem with the no-derivs cc license. If you want your work to be free for all, then it's a 'no rights reserved' license. Creative Commons gives content creators choice.
It's not only money that might drive individuals to protect their work with a license...it's also the message.
This very video could be remixed to completely change the message that it was intended to convey...maybe even to support the opposite view...would Mark be cool with that?
Don't get me wrong. Furthering cultural art by mixing and mashing bits and peices as a commentary is a great thing. But I don't understand why there is such resistance to a method of allowing people to not participate? (btw, I hardly ever use no-derivs on my work)
You know how Fair Use overrides all of that, right? If you're using a work in a critique or (perhaps) news situation, it doesn't matter what your CC license says. If you put a work out there, then it's available for critique.
The argument here is that Artistic Use has the same merit.
