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Kickstarting a "fair trade" remix project

Cory Doctorow at 9:30 am Tue, Oct 2, 2012

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Eric sez, "Help fund this new music platform for 1) collecting music/video samples from the field, 2) remixing interactive tracks that let listeners seamlessly expand those samples back into their original recordings 3) and kicking payment back to the original artists. We copyfighters have a problem: Remix culture (mostly western, technologically dominant) has the power to irresponsibly exploit and appropriate traditional culture (mostly poor, technologically unempowered). For example, the whole idea of what's copyrightable versus what's public domain structurally disadvantages cultures with deep and old knowledge. This project takes the problem head-on. Not to mention that these initial tracks coming out are pretty awesome. Imagine what this tool could do in the hands of tens of thousands of producers!"

remix ←→ culture (Thanks, Eric!)

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I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • Bernard Dubuisson

    “… so a few months ago, I left my job at Apple and embarked to Morocco …”

    This guy sounds motivated.

  • jhertzli

    Preposterously long copyright terms are not improved by being collectivized.