Jorge
August 17th, 2008, 06:30 PM
The open content community has been very upbeat recently - and it's no surprise since they won what they say is a major legal victory.
At times, the file-sharing revolution seems to merely overshadow the open content movement instead of pushing it out to the foreground. Instead of a debate on whether or not artists should either copyright their music and stick to an old business model or adopt a new one by taking a Creative Commons license and promoting music online instead, the debate gravitates towards whether it's right or wrong to download the latest top 40 songs. For the more paranoid, it's the only way left the major record labels are winning the copyright debates - by simply keeping music fans tied to what they release instead of exploring what non-major record labels or independent musicians have to offer.
So it may be no surprise that some may view this as a side-issue rather than a major breaking news story even when it first broke.
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/zeropaid?a=2cvCJC"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/zeropaid?i=2cvCJC" border="0"></img></a></p>
Read Full Article Here (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zeropaid/~3/367638421/Open+Content+Community+Celebrates+Legal+Victory)
At times, the file-sharing revolution seems to merely overshadow the open content movement instead of pushing it out to the foreground. Instead of a debate on whether or not artists should either copyright their music and stick to an old business model or adopt a new one by taking a Creative Commons license and promoting music online instead, the debate gravitates towards whether it's right or wrong to download the latest top 40 songs. For the more paranoid, it's the only way left the major record labels are winning the copyright debates - by simply keeping music fans tied to what they release instead of exploring what non-major record labels or independent musicians have to offer.
So it may be no surprise that some may view this as a side-issue rather than a major breaking news story even when it first broke.
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/zeropaid?a=2cvCJC"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/zeropaid?i=2cvCJC" border="0"></img></a></p>
Read Full Article Here (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zeropaid/~3/367638421/Open+Content+Community+Celebrates+Legal+Victory)