Lawrence Lessig is up in arms over a recent BillBoard article which, among other things, conflates the story of a rock artist who luckily chose AIDS medicine over the Creative Commons. Matt Haughey is also outraged over the story and Lessig gives a lot of great background on where this is all coming from. The bottom line message from RIAA-types is that the Creative Commons "is little-known in the music industry" and needs to stay this way-- that if choices are made available to artists, there's a chance they won't choose to put their fate and earnings into the Recording Industry as it is known today.

This all started bubbling up back in January of this year where Lessig first responded to such attacks (video torrent link) at the Creative Commons anniversary party in his animated style. And so it seems we have moved well past the point where we are to be ignored and are now actively being fought. As they say, the next step is to win.

As the title of the original offending article clearly states, music biz wary of copyright sharing movement.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 11:38 PM in general | Comments (0)