http://www.lessig.org/
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5709
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/german_creative_commons/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL

I have to admit that I'm quite pleasantly surprised with what Courtney Love has to say in this article about how the music industry is changing. ..>http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html?pn=1

'We must have sympathy with artists who are concerned about the trend towards copyleft licensing, because it is naturally a frightening thing to feel that you might lose your livelihood. But in fact copyleft licenses do not preclude making money from your art. It is wholly possible to sell copyleft material. If you print copies of your book, for example, these can then be sold.

There are copyleft licences that are actually fairly similar to conventional copyright law. I'm talking about a creative commons licence. The main difference is that an individual who has a copy of the material is free to reproduce and distribute it (provided they do it for non-commercial ends). Digital tecnology has made it inevitable that people will exercise this right, as someone has previously mentioned.

As a musician, i primarily want as many people as possible to listen to my material. And i think that creative commons licences are a great way to make this happen. I think it's great that people can get to listen to it for free, and im sure that some of them will come along to the shows or buy cds.

Which brings me to mention that my band will be releasing an ep soon, called EXTERNALITIES and the band is called... COPYLEFT. And, yes, it will be available to download for free, and will also be available to buy.'

copyleft here

There has been no activity from copyleft of late. This is due to the fact that we have been busy recording. The fruits of this labour of love and hate will soon be available to anyone who cares to listen.

This EP will be live recordings of our material, and so far its sounding good so check it out.

Thanks to everyone who visited our myspace. We couldn't have done it without you. OK we could, but it would have been  a pain in the ass.

dot communism is nice to see, the best things in life are free, intellectual property is theft copyright right? wrong proper shite write songs copyleft, deftly we enrage the major labels say we've paid they're wages ages, sages able to say got no love but the love of money so there must be no trust in the industry, no man is an island but since you are convinced you are an insular peninsular try my plan and then we can all be friends, the music oligopoly stopping me moving properly got to be losing poverty got no props for property, i'd rather be anomolous than an anonymous automaton, a number on a list i want to be autonomous
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 But you cant please all the people all the time.

However, you can please none of the poeple all the time.

Coming soon to the site is copyleft's brand new tune, Despair Resistant Care Assistant. It's a little different from the stuff you might have heard up till now, a very personal note from Tickle AKA MC SkeptiK. We'll be putting it up on the 3rd of January. So check it out.

Praise be to the un-holy one, we will soon have 666 profile views... only 6 more people needed and then the prophesy is fulfilled. HA HA HA HA

no blog since easter done loads since then, I [tickle] moved to the great city of glasgow, we've written a bunch more tunes and we had our first gig last friday in edinburgh in nektor [ iz that spelt rite ? ] it's a small venue but we still managed to make lots of noise and it was a wicked night. glad you could make it if you did, see you at the next one if you didn't. i'm not as prolific a blog writer as i could be i guess............................