{"id":2619,"date":"2009-01-06T21:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T01:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2009-01-06T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T01:30:54","slug":"nine-inch-nails-creative-commons-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/nine-inch-nails-creative-commons-success.html","title":{"rendered":"Nine Inch Nail&#8217;s Creative Commons Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/11947\"><strong>The Creative Commons blog has a thought-provoking post about CC licensed music<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It seems that the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">latest<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nin.com\/\">Nine Inch Nails<\/a> album, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV\">Ghost I-IV<\/a>, is available under a CC license.\u00a0 This means that you can legally download it from any of the dozens (if not hundreds) of dowloading services on the web&#8230; for free.<\/p>\n<p>However, the album is listed as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=amb_link_7866952_18?ie=UTF8&amp;node=1240544011\">best-selling album for 2008 on Amazon.com&#8217;s MP3 store<\/a>.\u00a0 Give that some thought, because it signals that the transition to a new business model is well under way.\u00a0 If that many people are paying for the download, you know many more are downloading the CC version; people are still still paying for Amazon&#8217;s download because they feel that NIN is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The music industry has been the razor&#8217;s edge of this new business model&#8217;s birth, though <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trade_group_efforts_against_file_sharing\">not without conflict<\/a>.\u00a0 Those of us who work with books and journals should pay attention, because at some time in the not-too-distant future, our media will undergo these sorts of transformations.\u00a0 What do libraries need to do in order to adapt?\u00a0 What do we need to do in order to lead the way?<\/p>\n<p><em>found via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/re_nin_best_selling_cc-license.html\">Lessig blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Commons blog has a thought-provoking post about CC licensed music.\u00a0 It seems that the latest Nine Inch Nails album, Ghost I-IV, is available under a CC license.\u00a0 This means that you can legally download it from any of &hellip; 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