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I'm spinning off the podsafe portion of my regular ol' WFMU radio show into a Free Culture-themed podcast called Grey Area. Each week I'll deliver "all the hits that fit" straight outta the Free Music Archive, plus conversations with guests about the grey area surrounding music and free culture in digital era.

The first episode features Eric Steuer from Creative Commons (also of Wired Magazine and the electronic/hip-hop group Meanest Man Contest). We talk about the licenses that facilitate sharing, openness and innovation everywhere from The White House to Al Jazeera to the Free Music Archive to this very podcast.  We also talk about CBC Radio's recent decision to stop using Creative Commons music -- once a prominent feature of programs like Spark -- due to the usage restrictions of CC's more popular noncommercial licenses. To gain a better understanding of the situation, we crack open CC's recent Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use” and discuss how this might play into the future of Creative Commons. And speaking of The Future, the nonprofit organization is currently in the midst of their Superhero campaign, so we talk about some of the exciting things on the horizon.

Next week, we'll talk with Sam Brylawski, the co-author of The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States. It's a new congressionally-mandated study, and it's subtitled "A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age"...but wait, wasn't the digital revolution supposed to solve this problem? The former executive director of the National Recording Preservation Board will outline some of the hurdles that stand in the way of our utopian digital archive.

This podcast is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, and features selected sounds from the ~25,000+ high-quality pod-safe mp3's available at http://freemusicarchive.org. The artwork remixes some sweet Greg Harrison designs.

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Great show, Jason, I enjoyed both the playlist and the chat With Eric Steuer.

And I have to say, I really appreciate your contributions to FMA forum, I could see this place being a regular stop for me in the future from here on, so thanks.

Nick

November 1, 2010: talkin' HADOPI w/ Jérémie Zimmermann (of laquadrature.net)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments
Dan Melchior Und Das Menace	A Wizard Doesn't Need a Computer	Das Menace: Unreleased / Rarities		Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Karl Blau	Crucial Contact	Zebra	K Records	Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
	interview with Jérémie Zimmermann from laquadrature.net			interview with Jérémie Zimmermann from laquadrature.net about HADOPI
Vicnet	Mr. Hadopi	Mr. Hadopi	Da ! Heard It Records	Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Mudboy	Half Wasted Track 3	Half Ice Half Wasted (Mudboy Beats II)	Free Matter for the Blind	Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Nambavan	Podruga Soldata	Chechnya on a dance floor	WM Recordings	Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Kiila	Kevätlaulu	Tuota Tuota	Fonal	Kiila Remix Contest @ FMA!
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black	Jesus Christ Vampire	Home of the Brave		Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Las Ruinas	Fashion City	Butano		Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Magic Hammer	Dance On Fire: Retribution	Most Extreme Ultimate Thunder		Free Music Archive Creative Commons BY-NC-ND

November 8, 2010: Art vs. Content w/ Matt LeMay

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direct link to mp3: http://podcast.wfmu.org/GA/ga101108.mp3

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	New
Lucky Dragons	Power Melody	Open Power 12'' EP	Teenage Teardrops	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Dustin Wong	Anniversary Song	Let It Go	Watercolor	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Art vs. Content w/ Matt LeMay Matt LeMay is a writer, musician, coder and generally thinky/talky dude. His latest article, "Living in the Age of Art vs Content", is an in-depth answer to the question Zach Baron posed in the Village Voice: "Is It Possible to Sell Out in 2010?", and to Steve Albini dissin Sonic Youth for their Major Label move. Also referenced: Henry Rollins video and this NY Times article
	talkin Art vs Content w/ Matt LeMay			backing tracks include Ja Prawn - "Gearworm" Lee Rosevere - "Backtime" and "Stormbox" Broke For Free - "Calm the Fuck Down" Patrick Lee - "Quittin' Time"
Pierced Arrows	In My Brain	Straight to the Heart	Tombstone	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
The Paparazzi	The Rococo Tape	Ampeater's BreakThruRadio Compilation	Ampeater Music	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND	*
My Teenage Stride	Dr. Dayglo	5 new songs		Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND	*
Transmitters	Radio Studente	Count Your Blessings (1987-1989)	You Are Not Stealing Records	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND big shout out to Katya/Oddio Overplay for introducing Portugal's You Are Not Stealing Records to the FMA!
G.G. Allin's Dick	Chaos Theory for a Box of Toys	King of the Road	You Are Not Stealing Records	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
James Yates	A72	Bad Panda #54	Bad Panda Records	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Blah Blah Blah	In the Army	Gold Collection	Blah Records	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Mastermind XS	Memories of a Machine	One Dub Many Roots	LCL (LibreCommeLair)	Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND	*
Raleigh Moncrief	Cheese Steak	Vitamins EP		Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC

Will 2010 go down as the year people quit downloading music illegally? Guest Paul Boutin writes about social networks and digital media for the New York Times, reviews books for the Wall Street Journal, and his latest Wired Magazine essay declared that "The age of stealing music via the Internet is officially over". Boutin describes how technological innovations have made the prospect of paying for digital music way more appealing than it was in Napster's heyday. But even as the hand of law came down this year against popular filesharing websites like Limewire and the Pirate Bay, Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge made quite the opposite declaration: "File sharing is increasing every day and the only thing this means is that more and more people will try to hide what they are doing on the internet." We'll discuss where things stand with music piracy as 2010 comes to a close.