NEGATIVLAND SAMPLING MOVIE

From Negativland's mailing list (Forklifters: http://www.negativland.com/touch.html):

In 2003 and 2004 Negativland worked with Stanford based Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org) to write the "Creative Commons Sampling License", an alternative to existing copyrights. These licenses are in increasingly widespread use by many artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, bloggers and websites. For a short film that explains Creative Commons and the sampling license Negativland helped create, go to -   http://creativecommons.org/about/sampling-movie.

In October of 2005 the new issue of WIRED magazine worked with Creative Commons to publicly launch the use of these alternative copyright licenses in an even bigger way, including a CD with each issue of WIRED of music released using various Creative Commons licenses. Surprisingly, most of the musicians chose to use the sampling license. For more on this project, go to-  http://creativecommons.org/wired/

While Negativland is not in 100% agreement with all aspects of the Creative Commons approach, Negativland very much welcomed the opportunity to work with CC and help create some real world alternatives to existing oppressive  anti-art copyright regimes. Creative Commons approach is to simply sidestep existing laws and give creators new ways to legally define for themselves and the public how they would like to see their art used and re-used.