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Hey, Mr. Licensing Man Rent a song to me It's your IP And culture isn't free no more (Fun fact: Bob Dylan's prolific songwriting career was started by playi
by cwkoss 6y ago
Hey, Mr. Licensing Man
Rent a song to me
It's your IP
And culture isn't free no more
(Fun fact: Bob Dylan's prolific songwriting career was started by playing "open source" music)
- Scott_Sanderson 6y agoThe Scorsese doc that came out on PBS in 2005(?) called No Direction Home does a great job of showing the "open source" body of work on which Dylan and the other Greenwich Village musicians in his orbit in the folk scene drew upon. A Pete Seeger interview in the doc has particularly good commentary on the issue, with Seeger analogizing the playing and remaking of shared songs to how lawyers rewrite old laws and storytellers retell old stories to fit the new generations.