Mark Hosler: Some Thoughts for Congress About Creativity and Copyright

Cameron Parkins, November 19th, 2008

Mark Hosler, co-founder of experimental music and sound collage act Negativland, recently took a trip to Washington D.C., where he penned this letter to members of congress on creativity and copyright. From metroactive :

Ours is a world in which copyright has fallen woefully behind the curve of what the public actually wants to do with all that digital “stuff” out there. Millions worldwide are creating art, music and video that incorporate elements of …

The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.

Alex Roberts, May 24th, 2007

… up with the Sampling copyright licenses that made the WIRED CD possible?

Collage art pioneers Negativland first brought the idea to Creative Commons. With their guidance, and the pro bono legal advice of Cooley Godward and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, we wrote up the licenses that give you the freedom to interact with these tracks.

Visit CC Mixter, our new mashup community site, where you can upload the new tunes you build from these tracks.

Beastie Boys / Now …

The Sampling Licenses

Alex Roberts, May 16th, 2007

… a Sampling License at the suggestion of collagist People Like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett ) and Negativland, the appropriationist art collective that has since served as the public discussion lead during the license drafting process. During this process, and thanks to FGV Law School, we learned that Gilberto Gil, Brazil’s Minister of Culture had long been thinking along similar lines. We combined these independent inspirations and, before long, had new licenses to offer to the public. …

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS REMIX CONTEST EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 14

Eric Steuer, February 15th, 2006

… Samples of dialogue by artists like De La Soul, DJ Qbert, Matmos, Coldcut, and members of Negativland – all taken from interviews conducted for Copyright Criminals – are available online at the popular remix community ccMixter.org for use as source material to be included in entrants’ songs. Entries will be judged by McLeod, Franzen, and author/producer Jeff Chang. Contest rules and details are available at ccMixter.org.

About the judges

Kembrew McLeod is a professor …

CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on Important Freedoms

Lawrence Lessig, December 7th, 2005

… and the “Developing Nations” License.

The Sampling license was inspired by the band Negativland and one of Brazil’s most famous musicians and current Culture Minister, Gilberto Gil. Basically, it say this: you can remix, or “sample” this content. The default Sampling license says you can even remix for commercial purpose. But the default Sampling license also says you don’t have permission to copy, distribute, display or perform the underlying work. Those rights …

Creative Commons anuncia el lanzamiento del Concurso de Remixes “Criminales del Copyright”

Eric Steuer, December 7th, 2005

… De La Soul, DJ Qbert, e integrantes de Public Enemy, así como

Matmos, Coldcut, e integrantes de Negativland – todas tomadas de entrevistas preparadas para Criminales del Copyright – se encuentran disponibles en línea en la comunidad de remixers ccMixter para ser utilizados por los concursantes como insumos en su participación en el concurso. La utilización de “audio snippets” se encuentra disponible para su libre uso gracias a las licencias Creative Commons, las mismas que …

Creative Commons Announces Copyright Criminals Remix Contest

Eric Steuer, December 6th, 2005

… like De La Soul, DJ Qbert, and members of Public Enemy, as well as Matmos, Coldcut, and members of Negativland – all taken from interviews conducted for Copyright Criminals – are available online at the popular remix community ccMixter for use as source material to be included in entrants’ songs. The audio snippets are available to the public for free through the use of Creative Commons licensing, which allows for the sharing of and building upon existing creative works. Entries will …

CC Talks With: Illegal Art

Derek Slater, October 1st, 2005

… the sampled artists do not mind the sampling. Island Records sued Bay Area-based collage pioneers Negativland for parodying a U2 song, though, in a later interview, U2’s lead guitarist said he “didn’t have any problem with” the song and that “the lawsuit was not our lawsuit.”

Had these legal limitations existed years ago, perhaps collage, rap, and Pop Art would have been sued to death before they ever had a chance to flourish. These days, the implication is that these …

Top twenty memories at CC

Glenn Otis Brown, April 4th, 2005

… with Willem at Larry and Bettina’s house.

(14) At Duke’s FRAMED! conference, seeing Negativland’s Mark Hosler meet, confront, and then make friends with the lawyer who set the U2 brouhaha in motion.

(15) The CC Europe Summit.

(16) Awaking from a nap under my desk to hear everyone from CC and Stanford CIS singing Happy Birthday on my 30th.

(17) Hearing a crazed David Byrne fan tell my mother, age 73 — at her first rock show ever — that the song “Psycho …

Dream job

Glenn Otis Brown, April 3rd, 2005

… (Lessig, Christiane, Roland) to the Tech Challenges page (Hal Abelson) to the sampling licenses (Negativland!) to the WIRED CD (Conde Nast and the whole editorial staff) to CC Mixter (Neeru) to CC Publisher (Nathan Yergler) to CC Search (Mike, Nutch, Yahoo!) to our site re-design (Matt, Adaptive Path) — the list could go on and on — I’ve had the chance to stand at the hub of a giant collaborative creation without really doing much of the creating. It’s been a bit like being in a …