Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the open sharing of information.

To celebrate CC's work in promoting remix culture and the vitality of the public domain, Wired hosted a Creative Commons benefit concert,

featuring artists that embody the spirit of "read/write" culture.

Welcome to Next Music!

As far as I know it's an organization that's kind of, a viewpoint that

people should be licensing their material to be openly, to be able to be reworked by the public

my album, like, samples over 200 songs in 40 minutes.

In order to try to get the licensing for that, first of all you'd have to be a billionaire to put out this album

so it seems ridiculous to me that there's a form of music and art

that is limited in release by your status financially.

And Creative Commons is all about remixing. It's about sharing culture

And what you just saw with Girl Talk was one guy

and 150 samples making magic on stage.

I'm familiar with Creative Commons, they reached out to me a long time ago and I really like what they do

because it's in tune with what I'm doing with music as well.

The only roadblock is that people want to get paid.

If you're going to release something and make your money off of it, people want to get paid

because they're a part of it. You know, everybody wants to get their money wherever they can.

I read the Wired issue on the airplane on the way from Sweden, the one with Beck on the cover

The way I live and the way I work and the way I make music is way different

than what Beck was writing about, you know?

My whole career has been finding alternative ways to reach people.

It's all fair game as far as I'm concerned.

The more raw material the better, you know?

Whether that's recording the subway train or taking a James Brown snare.

I'm all for it and I really don't see anything too bad in it.

Just do something with it!

So Creative Commons gives artists free tools to mark their creativity with the freedom they want it to carry.

There are 140 million objects marked with this freedom

and that's the movement that's necessary to change this world

the world where Girl Talk is a crime

This should be Creative Commons' slogan:

get the lawyers the fuck out of the way and let the artists create!

NextMusic offers fans a chance to see and hear what's next in the world of music

www.nextfest.net

All ticket sales from the sold out event were donated directly to Creative Commons.

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