Just thinking of pulling together a history of RPM on Kompoz.

The major Kompozgroup efforts.

More restricted efforts by Kompozers here on kompoz. (Successful and not.) Let me know of any you know about please.

• RPM Challenged
• RPM Challenged 2010
• RPM Challenged 2011
• RPM Challenged 2012 Coming February 1st.

http://rpmchallenge.com/

Starts Feb 01 and they say most of us get 29 days this year.

drew

Some quick help would be appreciated guys:

Daylight Saving Dance

drew

Just posted a new blog at: zotz

" I get tired of hearing about people sending out Cease And Desist notices to others. Especially as it relates to music, the arts, culture, and software.

So I had this wacky idea. It might be fun to send out Begin And Persist notices. If you are doing the Free (Free Culture - Free Software) thing in some area why not send out a Begin And Persist notice to friends asking them to begin sharing your work with others and to persist in doing so.

..."

Click Begin And Persist to read the whole shebang.

I am looking to write a novel in November again this year.

I will be posting the first draft in blog form each day as I progress here:

Baldy - A Bahamian Shaggy Dog Story

I am looking to write some lyrics for the novel and I am also looking for other lyricists to write some Free lyrics that can be included in the novel. (Must be written in November and licensedBY or BY-SA, no NClicensed works accepted for inclusion.)

I am further looking to have these lyrics turned into at a minimum demo mixes asap so that I can provide links to the projects / mixes in the novel itself. (For a bit of cross promotion.)

If you have any interest at all in this, please jump in. Let me know asap as well.

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Venerable author Cory Doctorow and I had this email correspondence this Summer, with the intention of sharing it to illuminate some issues confronting Free Culture and Creative Commons licenses. My thanks to Cory!

May 17, 2010

Hi Cory,

I’m writing to invite you to experiment with what I think is a brilliant innovation from QuestionCopyright.org: the Creator Endorsed Mark.

You clearly laid out your reasons for using -NC licenses in THE COPYRIGHT THING:"

A followup blog to my  The real cost of free blog of Oct 12/2010 - enjoy.

"Consider the remarkable statement from Alanis Morissette's attorney at the Future of Music Conference: 97% of the artists signed to a major label before Napster earned $600 or less a year from it. And these were the lucky lotto winners, the tiny fraction of 1% who made it to a record deal."

and:

"So yeah, if you want to try to control individual copies of your work on the internet, go ahead and try. I think it's a fool's errand, and so does almost every technical expert in the world, but what do we know?

But for so long as this plan involves embedding control, surveillance and censorship into the very fabric of the information society's infrastructure, I'll continue to tour the world, for free, spending every penny I have and every ounce of energy in my body to fight you."

Any thoughts on the quote or the full article?

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