Recently I’ve become fascinated with the creative commons licenses. For me this is a movement that recognizes artist’s desire to protect their work, but also to share it with the world in such a way that not only works for the consumer of the art, but indeed empowers them to consume and use the art in ways the artist sees fit. This is realization of a legal way to copyleft my artistic output. It’s very similar to the Open Source software worlds

So I’ve made some sweeping changes to this site and the way I share and distribute my art. Well, not so sweeping in anything that you can ‘see’ but really in the way I want to empower you dear reader to consume, reuse, sample, destroy, create derivative works, and save, broadcast and share the art in any way you see fit.

It’s sort of a multi-prong attack:
• All the tracks that are posted here are now archived on archive.org

• This site and it’s content is now clearly licensed under the Creative Commons sampling+ License. I’ve linked to the license in human, legal, and machine readable formats, as needed. Please note that quoted material in my blog, and the content on the sites I link to is not covered under this license, obviously. However, everything from my XHTML/CSS source code, to the graphics, to the tracks of mine that I post are all explicitly meant to be released and shared under the creative commons license.

• I’m in the process of adding Bit Torrent downloads of all the tracks I post. This is still in the testing phase, but I invite all of you to download my tracks via the torrent links in the .music section and help me seed them for a while. New to Bit Torrent? Check out this FAQ to get started. It’s a file swarming p2p protocol, and it’s the fuckin’ bee’s knees for sure.

I hope you enjoy these changes. Comment at my blog on send me an email: eric (at) ezrpm (dot) com … I’d love to hear what you think about these changes. This is actually something I’ve been planning to do for a while. Now is the time. I invite you to explore more about CC and copylefting in general, and if you’re an artist or label owner – abandon the increasingly draconian Copyright system and move in a direction that fosters not only creativity, but protects your art and art – itself - in a way that is inopressive and let’s art be free… even if you plan on charging money for it, now or later.

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