Tone: Please copy my CD (You won' t get in trouble, promise!)
UPDATE: THE ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE - ENJOY!UDDATE 2: PICS FROM THE LAUNCH
This is big. On january 21st, the extremely charming Aalborg-based indietronica artist Tone (Sofie Nielsen) releases her new album, “Small Arm of Sea”, under a Creative Commons license.
Her label, Urlyd, says Copy our records for your friends, please! and the danish collecting society KODA backs the release, making sure commercial uses are covered by the usual compensation scheme. This is historic, and I am extremely pleased to see this happen for the first time in Denmark.
Oh, and did I mention - Tone's music is GREAT. I had the pleasure of listening to it last summer, live, on a lawn in copenhagen - and the bits I´ve heard from this release are very very promising. You can count on me at the Copenhagen launch at Gefährlich, Fælledvej 7, 2200 København N, KBH jan 22nd 2008, at 21:00h (map)
Tone website and Myspace
Also, check out this news piece from Tv2 News (in danish)
posted by Henrik Moltke at 11:03 PM
5 Comments:
Great - another "useful idiot" who doesn't want to get paid.
You should be doing what you can to give creative artists a bigger share of the pie - instead of destroying their rights.
Why do you hate artistic creativity so much, Henrik?
Shame on you!
En god og interessant nyhed. Desværre kan jeg ikke via dine links se hvilken CC licens der er tale om, selvom man kunne gætte på by-nc-nd varianten, som Tone bruger på sin hjemmeside.
Men hvordan forholder det sig med KODA? Hvis Tone er (direkte eller indirekte) medlem af KODA, har hun jo overdraget retten til offentlig fremførelse af sine værker til KODA. Det betyder at hun ikke længere har lov til at frigive sine værker under en CC licens, medmindre hun har fået en særlig tilladelse fra KODA.
Du skriver, at KODA understøtter frigivelsen under en CC licens, men udover hvad du skriver her har jeg ikke kunnet finde noget der indikerer at det er tilfældet.
Kunne det mon tænkes, at Tone ikke er klar over at hun har overdraget enhver ret til offentlig fremførelse af sine værker til KODA, og at hun tror det er i orden med KODA bare fordi CC licensen forbyder kommerciel offentlig fremførelse?
Såvidt jeg har forstået er det en Navngivelse-Ikke-kommerciel-Ingen bearbejdelser 2.5 Danmark licens - Urlyd var lidt tidligt ude, så vi er ikke helt klar med en pressemeddelelse (når jeg siger vi mener jeg Creative Commons og KODA).
Tones plade kommer ud mandag. Man må forvente at hun underskriver en aftale med KODA og at de offentliggør den nye aftale for deres medlemmer umiddelbart efter. Og så får du forhåbentlig svar på dine spørgsmål.
Are you kidding paulo? It's the record companies who get paid by record sales. Tone is incredibly talented and I would not know that she existed besides the power of this publicity move. People who like her music will buy her album in order to have the full audiovisual experience. Artists are going to be pirated, so it's time that they start looking for other ways to market their talents and alternative ways of creating revenue. The power of open source music is that it empowers artists to take their marketing into their own hands. I think that in a lot of ways that this type of move is empowering, as it will decentralize record labels and make indie the mainstream!
@Elle : I could not have said it better :-)
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