The WIRED CD: The Calcutta Telegraph

Glenn Otis Brown, November 8th, 2004

A very nice article on the WIRED CD by Subhajit Banerjee in The Telegraph of Culcutta, India.

Can new-age music piracy be curbed by a good old fashioned crackdown? There are stirrings that suggest the way music is shared is about to undergo a drastic change, thanks to the open approach.

The WIRED CD: “Going Legit”

Glenn Otis Brown, November 4th, 2004

Reuters has a piece today about BitTorrent in which the WIRED CD is mentioned as one example among many of perfectly legal uses of the technology.

Killer CC App: The Publisher, beta version

Neeru Paharia, October 29th, 2004

Leveraging the Internet Archive’s
generous offer to host Creative Commons licensed (audio and video)
files for free, we recently completed the 0.96 beta version of The Publisher,
a desktop, drag-and-drop application that licenses audio and video
files, and sends them to the Internet Archive for free hosting.

When you’re done uploading, the application gives you a URL where others can download the file. It also is able to tag MP3 files with Creative Commons metadata and publish verification metadata to the Web. A HUGE congratulations to Nathan Yergler, who’s done an amazing job with this. Also, a great thanks to Jon Aizen and the folk at the Internet Archive. You can download the Publisher from here — give it a test run and let us know what you think.

Also note that aside from being downloadable from Internet Archive,
these tagged MP3s can flow on to P2P networks, and be identified as
Creative Commons licensed (see our Lookup app we recently also updated to 0.96). Morpheus is currently the only file sharing application to identify Creative Commons licensed files.

Here are some screenshots of how it works:

Drag and drop your file.

Choose a Creative Commons license.

Upload your file to the Internet Archive.

Get a URL from where you can download your file.

Visit the web page where your work will be published, after it
goes through the Archive’s curatorial process (ususally within 24 hours.

The WIRED CD: Featured on Endgadget

Glenn Otis Brown, October 28th, 2004

Here’s a nice how-to piece from Endgadget that uses the WIRED CD as the guinea pig.

The WIRED CD: NPR recording is up

Glenn Otis Brown, October 28th, 2004

You can now listen online to NPR’s conversation about the WIRED CD with Wired’s Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna.

DJ Heaven: The Remix Hotel

Glenn Otis Brown, October 28th, 2004

This weekend in San Francisco: The Remix Hotel, a three-day “immersion in technology” and music featuring Dan the Automator (of the WIRED CD!) and hometown phenom Kid 606.

I’m curious to see what some of these guests could do with the WIRED CD and will try to find out for myself.

The WIRED CD: What the Artists Think

Glenn Otis Brown, October 27th, 2004

One of the many cool aspects of the November issue of WIRED are the blurbs about each artist who contributed to the CD. In the print mag, they dot the many-page Creative Commons spread like Easter eggs. Example:

Track 7: Dan the Automator/Relaxation Spa Treatment

The busy brain behind groups like Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon, and
Lovage, Dan Nakamura has made a career out of mashing the styles and
sounds of an eclectic array of partners. “The music is always greater
than just the sum of the contributors’ parts,” he says. Thus a concept
album featuring Brit-pop icon Damon Albarn, underground rapper Del the
Funkee Homosapien, and experimental turntablist Kid Koala could have
easily been a schizophrenic mess, but as produced by Nakamura, the
Gorillaz was a slick and smart style hybrid that became an
international smash. “I make collages,” he says. “I’m not the kind of
guy who samples big, obvious loops from hit songs. I’m more interested
in finding lots of random little tones from all over and then creating
a totally new track out of the pieces.”

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Common Gnomes

Nathan Yergler, October 27th, 2004

Another goodie from the elves in the CC Geek Workshop, this time for our friends using Linux; in particular, Gnome users.

The new tool, as of yet unnamed (suggestions?) adds a Creative Commons tab to the file properties of any MP3 file. For example, a track from Copy Me/Remix Me :

As

you can see, the property page displays the license claim, and then

verifies it against the web page. If the verification page didn’t

exist, or didn’t match properly, you’d see an error message instead.

The full release announcement, along with installation instructions, is available on my blog. Enjoy!

The WIRED CD: On the Air Right Now

Glenn Otis Brown, October 27th, 2004

Neal Conan, of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, is interviewing WIRED
editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna at this
very moment. Tune in to NPR to catch it (88.5 in the Bay Area); you can
even call into the show and sound off.

One caller just now, from Waco, Texas: “I have remixed the Beastie
Boys before, but never exactly legally. . . . To me this is very
exciting, and I want to let them know that it’s a great first step.”

UPDATE: Show’s over. But knowing NPR’s programming habits, it’ll come back on again today. It also looks like the show will be online sometime soon.

The WIRED CD: The Talk of the Nation

Glenn Otis Brown, October 26th, 2004

So to speak. Tune in to NPR today for a special program about the WIRED CD. Out here in the Pacific US time zone, it’s slated for 12:30pm, but you may want to check the Talk of the Nation site for airtime in your area.