ASCAP and Creative Commons
Eric Steuer is the Creative Commons (CC) blog urged to support CC in their defense against ASCAP 's assertion that CC undermines their copyright.
I myself am a big supporter of the Creative Commons approach to copyright. One, because copyright is not black and white, but about others' use. Two, because it gives the author control over his own work.
It is useless to ASCAP claim is served cynical and mendacious, and in conjunction with fundraising for their organization. But it is in itself true that "FREE" challenges the old licensee. The control is removed from the organization to the individual and the previous business models are challenged by new ones.
So instead of defending a time there was before 1995, so should ASCAP transform their organization so it can handle the challenges of composers, authors and publishers face today.
There remains a need for administration of copyright, legal assistance, and similar work as an organization have better opportunities to perform than the individual. It may only happen under conditions other than those 20 years ago.
