This just keeps getting better: Danger Mouse to release blank CD

dark night of the soulI can’t help but remain opti­mistic and joy­ful when i read sto­ries like this one.  Already released in it’s entirety online (NPR)—boast­ing such col­lab­o­ra­tors as Sparkle­horse, Iggy Pop, mem­bers of The Pix­ies and The Stroke, with appro­pri­ately spooky […]

DIY licensing is the future?

Cory Doc­torow has a thought-provoking piece out there about intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights and the clusterf*ck that is dig­i­tal licensing today.

If you’re run­ning an enlight­ened com­pany, you might have a Cre­ative Com­mons license hang­ing out there for non-commercial, “fannish” uses.…

But some­where between Cre­ative Com­mons and full-blown, lawyerly license nego­ti­a­tion is a rich, untapped source of income for creative […]