Posted 20 September 2006Practically every online downloading system already comes with a Digital Rights Management lock that limits its use. That same technology could mark music as “pre-approved for performance” — a song that users can play with, dance to, re-record, and post to the Internet with impunity. YouTube could check for a simple key, much easier than whatever magic copyrighted-music-recognizer YouTube has up its sleeve.
Valleywag: Record companies, it's finally time for the Creative Commons license
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Melies color Voyage dans la lune, by Georges Méliès, Public Domain.