From Carmelo Ruiz
Pearl Jam’s “Life Wasted” Video
The new music video for Pearl Jam’s “Life Wasted” was released under the Creative Commons Attribution- Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that people anywhere can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This is the first Pearl Jam video to be released in eight years and the first video produced by a major label to be CC-licensed. Pearl Jam and J Records are offering the video as a free download at Google Video through May 24th. After May 24th, the clip will be made available for sale.
stop-rokkasho.org
Ryuichi Sakamoto: stop-rokkasho.org
Esteemed composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched stop-rokkasho.org in response to the opening of a nuclear reprocessing plant in the Japanese village of Rokkasho. To lead off an international awareness campaign, Sakamoto wrote and recorded a track called “Rokkasho” � featuring rapper Shing02 and guitarist/producer Christian Fennesz � under the group name Team 6. The vocal and instrumental tracks have been made available under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus license, so that people can remix, sample, or remodel the track.