Grant Olney has posted a self-described manifesto titled Towards Open, Participatory, Sustainable Art: A Manifesto. In it Olney reasons that creative control laws as they exist today “more often than not do much more harm than good to artists and the general population” due to their having been created via “[lobbying] for by big business and thus designed to benefit large `publishers’ and `rights-management’ conglomerates.” Olney does not argue for a “free music” society but throws his weight behind licensing schemas like Creative Commons, which allows a variety of rights to be reserved or granted by the content creator.

You can read the full document here or below.

You can grab 20 songs from Mr. Olney via his wintery good things a’comin mix at his webpage. All of the songs contained are licensed via the Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution license which grants the rights to anyone to copy and share them, use them in their projects (both non-commercial and commercial), remix them, extract samples, etc., all for free. You also need to ensure that others in the future have the same freedom to build upon their work under a compatible open license and give attribution.
Source Grant Olney has posted a self-described manifesto titled Towards Open, Participatory, Sustainable Art: A Manifesto. In it Olney reasons that creative control laws as they exist today “more often than not do much more harm than good to artists and the general population” due to their having been created via “[lobbying] for by big business and thus designed to benefit large `publishers’ and `rights-management’ conglomerates.” Olney does not argue for a “free music” society but throws his weight behind licensing schemas like Creative Commons, which allows a variety of rights to be reserved or granted by the content creator.

You can read the full document here or below.

You can grab 20 songs from Mr. Olney via his wintery good things a’comin mix at his webpage. All of the songs contained are licensed via the Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution license which grants the rights to anyone to copy and share them, use them in their projects (both non-commercial and commercial), remix them, extract samples, etc., all for free. You also need to ensure that others in the future have the same freedom to build upon their work under a compatible open license and give attribution.
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