Note that isn't my opinion of CC. I welcome it as yet one more way for rights-holders to control their rights, or not control them. But a "long time college artist" posted on CC's sampling board with an interesting observation today. While he welcomes CC artists who give permission for their works to be sampled, when they do that he's no longer interested in sampling them:

I can tell you that any media or art out there that has a CC license attached to it is automatically less interesting for us to work with! :) It's an aesthetic thing. With a few notable exceptions(our "U2" being the biggest one), we are more drawn to things that are quite obscure and harder to find, so that our "found sounds" are more unique to us and our work. Anything that is officially up for grabs, like with a CC license, is also up for grabs to *anybody* out there. So, this makes it less unique, and thus, artistically, less desirable to work with. And so, while of course we support this "re-use" attitude (and strongly espouse it in our own work as well), it makes the found things less appealing.

Apparently potential samples are only aesthetic when they must be stolen to be sampled. I hope he is not representative of the sampling community.

posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:56 PM | Access: Commons, Fair Use, Orphan Works, Public Domain

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