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)
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)
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.