Former RIAA head Hillary Rosen made an explicitly pro Creative Commons statement in an interview with Wired magazine’s Elliot Van Buskirk.
“I understand there’s a rabid philosophy on both sides of this to protect or not to protect … and I actually am not that black and white about it. I think if people want to protect their content, and want to have a DRM or a business model that limits its distribution, that’s okay. If others don’t want to, that’s okay too. That’s why I like Creative Commons. It’s all about choice. What I have focused on is what will most dramatically expand the music market at a time when device choices feel so limited and the service side is so underutilized.”
This belongs in your Unix fortune file or .sig….
“That’s why I like Creative Commons. It’s all about choice.” Hillary Rosen, fmr RIAA chief
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Actually I like this part even more:
‘I think if people want to protect their content, and want to have a DRM or a business model that limits its distribution, that’s okay’
I like the word limit in it….that doesn’t sound so positive about DRM or companies using such methods. Too bad she wasn’t saying these things while in her function as head of RIAA.