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The Wired Creative Commons CD

Wired has come up with some new (to me) sampling licenses that allow various degrees of sampling use and redistribution, and they've released a freebie CD with this month's issue that contains open-licensed tracks from a variety of (former) heavy hitters, including the Beastie boys and David Bowie. It's great to see the idea gaining some traction in the wider press - kudos to Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, and of course my own main main, Kembrew McLeod here at Iowa, for making major contributions to advancing this debate.

See, academics actually are good for something.

Here is a Torrent to DL the CD.

Here is the Wired web page devoted to it.