Trent Reznor on NIN's Business Models and the Future of Music

For Digg.com‘s fourth Digg Dialogg, Kevin Rose interviews NIN’s front man Trent Reznor with questions submitted by the Digg community. Not surprisingly, the top rated question refers to NIN’s choice to use Creative Commons licenses when releasing his two recent albums. One of those albums, Ghosts I-IV, topped Amazon MP3 as the best selling album … Read More “Trent Reznor on NIN's Business Models and the Future of Music”

Nine Inch Nails' CC-licensed album nominated for a Grammy Award

This week, the Grammy Awards nominations were announced – and, for the first time, a Creative Commons-licensed track and album are on the list. Nine Inch Nails’ “34 Ghosts IV” is nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, while the album that track appears on, Ghosts I-IV, is up for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition … Read More “Nine Inch Nails' CC-licensed album nominated for a Grammy Award”

Ghostss: Nine Inch Nails CC-Licensed Video Remix App

Marco Hinic, ‘visualist engineer’ and founder of VJ application ArKaos, recentlly decided to experiment with the Nine Inch Nails Ghosts Film Festival, eventually creating Ghostss, a C++ powered online generative art project that creates infinite visual remixes by pooling over 1GB worth of video and select tracks from Ghosts: I-IV. The result might be one … Read More “Ghostss: Nine Inch Nails CC-Licensed Video Remix App”