SL magazine publishes cool cc article

Entitled, ‘Steal this CD’, the article is an awesome read – not because I wrote it, but because of the amazing things that Rebecca Kahn and Natalie Dixon did with it. From the first para:

‘The recording and publishing industry has been crying wolf for years, telling us that the internet is killing music – that by copying it, we’re keeping all those poor little record execs and rock stars on the breadline. Well, just as the photcopier didn’t kill publishing and the VCR didn’t kill the movie industry, the internet hasn’t killed anything off yet. Through an organisation called Creative Commons, the Beastie Boys and other top musicians are starting to bypass record companies, making their music available to the public to copy freely online, remix or be sampled by other artists for use in their own new recrdings. Welcome to the end of copyright as we know it.’

I especially love the awesome graphic that SL commissioned from magictorch.com. You guys rock!

Thank you for believing in this (very young) movement for South Africa.