Don’t forget…we’re meeting at 10am in Moreau 210 for a presentation about John Cage and a prepared piano demonstration by Joan Currie tomorrow morning (Tuesday, March 17th)!

Creative Commons: “We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare ’some rights reserved.’”

Wikimedia Commons is a “media repository that is created and maintained not by paid-for-artists, but by volunteers…Unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as the source and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The Wikimedia Commons database itself and the texts in it are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.”

The Prelinger Collection, “was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next 20 years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 ‘ephemeral’ (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.” This is another copyright free media repository…Rick Prelinger encourages users to “download, use and reproduce these films in whole or in part, in any medium or market throughout the world. You are also warmly encouraged to share, exchange, redistribute, transfer and copy these films, and especially encouraged to do so for free. ” DJ Spooky uses the Prelinger Archives, as seen in his performance below.

The Prelinger Collection is housed (among other places) on the Internet Archives website. “The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet livrary, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.”