I should say (or maybe, more probably, I shouldn't) that I don't really buy into the Creative Commons thing. I don't see that it really does anything besides generate a little boilerplate and add useless html to web pages to do a job that could be as easily accomplished by three lines of text. I retain copyright on my work. Everything I write is mine. Anybody wants use of it, they can be courteous and drop me a line. Reblogging is not mission critical, okay, you can wait a day to hear from me. Because unless you're, like, Sony or something I'm unlikely to object. Or if you're just too damn lazy to mooch over to my profile and shoot me an email, you could also just use it, and the chances are about a million to one I won't care or indeed notice. It's just text. Of course if worst came to it I might track you down and sue you in small claims court. I am confident I could persuade a judge to assess a value to any particular example of my writing of no less than five dollars, so watch it. Maybe you better just linky linky instead, no? This is the problem, as Staccato's slogan of "where we feature music that probably won't get you sued," probably unwittingly identifies. A license is no real protection against copyright infringement prosecution. It hasn't been put to any real tests yet but that's only because these free as in radical creation and distribution schemes don't yet have a big enough footprint among our most litigious citizens, that is to say, corporations. See, I figure, copyright is as strong as it gets. Everything past that is either redundant and encumbering (like the DMCA) or limiting (like Creative Commons). I don't know what horrible things you might do to my precious precious words. I might have to sue you on general principles over some outrage so dirty and low I can't even imagine it. I'm not about to water down my rights, I might need them. But that's just me. I understand people who go that way, and of course I'm not the slightest bit reluctant to link into their content to enliven my own. Stacatto is worth a visit, download whole shows or selected tracks from the newer ones. Frankly, once you get through the files not found and the weirdos (download in .ogg format? thanks, that's really helpful you damned hippy) there's not much trackwise business left. But of course it's about the show not the tracks. For them. I'm all about the tracks. Which is probably why the podcasting revolution is passing me by.
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fleur arabe by AMINOS
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