Play the Web is a blog with the premise of exploring technical hurdles for making chains of derivative works:
On this blog we want to talk about media reuse on the Internet and enabling reuse in a responsible way. Media companies’ reactionary response of restricting all use is throwing the baby out with the bathwater [...]
I have added some new formats for my song Frog in the Well.
For people making videos, I created cuts of 20 seconds, 30 seconds, and 40 seconds. I have noticed that the length of a piece of music is a big factor in choosing it, so these cuts are to increase the number of [...]
An insight on the economics of remixes from the Creative Commons blog:
On a music remix site such as ccMixter, the best fully mixed tracks are most enjoyable to listen to, but the best a cappellas and samples are probably the most valuable content in the sense that the former build upon and require the latter.
So [...]
When Liszt transcribed Paganini:
remix culture [was vital] was in the era before recording technology. Remixes back then required transcriptions and new performances of the pieces created, to make new pieces. Transcription/remix culture provides a set of parallels that might help us understand that what we are doing is not some odd form of new piracy, [...]
Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article):
If every user who had a cracked copy of Windows had a legitimate version of Linux instead, what would the percentage of computers running Linux be? More than there are now, that’s for sure.
That’s also true for music.
Unauthorized distribution is bad for open media.
gurdonark:
This whole technological revolution is useless [...]
Conversation on the Spirit Rappings #2 post wandered over to the idea of releasing songs in the form of the raw source files used for the final mix, starting with this comment of mine:
Releasing songs as their raw multitrack sources would carry this idea to its practical extreme. Every sample and every track would be [...]