Rattle wrote:
] ] On nin.com, Trent Reznor is offering a complete mix of a
] ] song from the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album as a
] ] Garageband 2.0 file.
]
] I need to get Garageband upgraded.
]
] This is a very cool thing, in several ways. The license is
] very CC like.

Not really. CC license would allow you to commercialize the content as long as you gave proper citation. While I think it's a great idea to give to people the ability to 'play' with the material (it's a great educational tool), the idea that artists (particularly *this* artist) is restricting your ability to manipulate it for commercial purposes, smacks of the highest order of hypocracy.

Most of Pretty Hate Machine is sampled off of other artists materials. Yes, it was pre-sample law. Guess what? A lot of Broken is too, and that was after the law. The only thing that really changed was he and the engineers got better at munging the samples to be unrecognizable. The ratio for Downward Spiral is more on the original side, but it's still about 50% 'lifted'.

And don't tell me he couldn't do it. Venus Hum has been releasing the raw files for their materials for years. So has BT. They encourage people to manipulate the material and even utilize it for commercial purposes. Venus Hum even sponsored a contest where the best original song written from their sound material won.

Frankly, I rather like the era of freely sampled music. De La Soul. Beastie Boys (Pauls Boutique!). NIN. Deelite. KLF. Skinny Puppy. The whole damn 80's hip hop movement. On and on and on. There's some damn good albums from that era that could never be released in today's world. ALL art is derivative. This just makes it even more creative in my mind.

RE: Boing Boing: NIN's Trent Reznor releases song as GarageBand file