Candian band staples CC-licensed CDs to phone-poles with anti-Canadian-DMCA messages

Canadian rockers The Craft Economy — whom we blogged last year when they stapled their CC-licensed CDs to telephone poles — have done it again. Only this time, the CDs they've stuck up (the demo for their next commercial release) are also part of the band's protest against Bill C-61, Canada's answer to the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act.


The disc, containing a demo of "Menergy," a track off of the band's upcoming record (due late August) isn't simply Creative Commons licensed music like their previous hydro pole-only release, this time it's a Bill C-61 protest too (see that little piece of paper sticking out of the back of the disc? Yeah, that's the protest part). It reads, in part:

This is far and beyond and more bizarre than the heavily criticized DMCA in the USA. Copyright should protect the rights of artists and producers of creative content, but it should not suppress creative and artistic expression. The Craft Economy has licensed our music, including this CD, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 license. This license gives you the freedom to share our music with your friends and enemies, and remix and use it in new and creative ways, provided you attribute the work back to us, and you don't make money off our work. It's fair for you and us. This is the way art should work.)

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(Thanks, David!)