Stanley sez, "I was very surprised to see that a Warner Brothers band is doing a Creative Commons remix contest. Fort Minor, which is a side project of Linkin Park (who if I'm not mistaken, is one of the best selling bands of the last few years), put their new single online at ccmixter.org yesterday. That's pretty great to see!"
I agree — I met the guy responsible for this (Update: Eric from CC points out that this originated with Jeff Watson, not Ethan Kaplan)… at last week's O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference in San Diego and he struck me as a hell of a guy who's really pushing Big Entertainment in exciting new directions.
Creative Commons, Warner Bros. Records, and Machine Shop Recordings are proud to present the Fort Minor Remix Contest. Fort Minor is offering the separated audio elements of "Remember the Name" online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so that producers all over the world can easily create remixes of the hit song.
To enter, produce a remix of Fort Minor's "Remember the Name" (download the audio sources here) and upload it to ccMixter between March 22, 2006 and May 6, 2006. All entries must be licensed to the public under a CC BY-NC license. After all eligible entries have been received, Fort Minor's Mike Shinoda will choose a winning remix. The producer of the winning remix will be awarded a new Technics SL-1200MK5 turntable, courtesy of Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings.
(Thanks, Stanley!)
See also: WB band "Fort Minor" does Creative Commons remix contest
