I for one find all the license talk fascinating. I'm still smarting from Mathieu's response to the question 'what is free software? - answer " a set of licenses", from a while back. Whereas I like to think of it as an ethical and political manifesto/code of conduct, he's quite correct that yes it is just a bunch of licenses.
Slightly OT but has anyone come across the 'telekommunist manifesto' http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2010/10/21/the-telekommunist-from-dmytri-kleiner-is-out-now/ I really like some of the writing therein regarding licensing and how as a community we are getting royally fucked by the recent'ish strain of hyper-aggressive-capitalism that is loving our willingness for our work to be appropriated and incorporated within an online marketing exercise. Vimeo and soundcloud being a couple that spring to mind that I'm a content provider for (and am in the process of rethinking). I know that in some ways this is not a new argument but it's certainly still relevant. I think also it comes down to the same arguments I was having in the late Eighties/early Nineties where it basically comes down to - which side are you on? I for one very consciously chose to be working within the music industry but in Manchester and very much in the Independent sector. As far as I was concerned we were cooler, 2 steps ahead, we had more fun and there was nowhere else I wanted to be. Pd and being based at the University of Huddersfield has given me that feeling back again. In these moments I start to hear Billy Burroughs croaking in my inner ear: "watch whose money you pick up" Cheers, Julian On 25 October 2011 13:17, i go bananas <[email protected]> wrote: > yeah. this is a very unfair part of the music industry too. the > originators get forgotten, and the follow on-ers get all the benefits. > > take this 'new' scene of dubstep that has just sprung up. you have > american kids with faked writs cuts drawn with texta pens to impress the > twilight emo vampire wannabe crowd, making terrible soul-less versions of > the original sound and filling it to the brim with cheesy melodies, and > snare drum rushes. > the originators have earnt nothing for too long, and go back to their day > jobs. > > and the emo chumps sip jack daniels and diet coke with tommy lee and rave > on about how they're living the rockstar lifestyle. > > i am just a simple person with 5 fingers on each hand, and a high school > education, and solutions to these sort of inequities are beyond me. > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Andy Farnell > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:20:32 +0900 >> i go bananas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > However, one of the real special gems for me in my journey through the >> world >> > of pd, was discovering that not only was it a fantastic way to program, >> but >> > also, that Miller had issued pd through a license that i had never even >> > heard of before, and it was the best sort of license i could imagine. >> It >> > was a dream come true, when i got a job to do audio development and i >> could >> > just do it all in pd because we could just embed the entire pd program >> > inside our app. >> >> Yes it's wonderful. The magic of Millers Pd and our persistent advocacy of >> it >> paid off, and it's opened the door for scores of new companies, hundreds >> of new >> breed audio programmers who can rapidly produce thousands of cool new >> products. >> And it's great to hear you landed on your feet with a gig doing a skilled >> and >> very enjoyable thing. ;) >> >> It would be remiss to not mention that the early movers this direction had >> to >> fight tooth and nail _against_ the manufacturers who ultimately share in >> the >> profits of this business. And we continue to fight daily against moronic >> anti-economies of shortsighted, lazy, greedy, controlling "profit before >> productivity" thinking. >> >> -- >> Andy Farnell <[email protected]> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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