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jason on 06/30/2011 at 06:00PM
Credit is Due (The Attribution Song) feat Bliss Blood
Nina Paley, creator of the Ramayana-inspired animated film Sita Sings the Blues and the force behind QuestionCopyright.org, released a great new comic/animation/video/article/song outlining the importance of proper attribution, especially in the digital world where sources are increasingly easy to track (link).
We all know that Attribution is a key component of the Creative Commons licenses which build atop copyright to make what we're doing here at the FMA possible. But Nina Paley doesn't see attribution as a copyright issue at all; it's more of an issue of building a sustainable environment for free culture. In the accompanying article, she explains that the video stars Beethoven (whose work is in the public domain and no longer subject to copyright) to make the case that "copyright has nothing to do with preventing plagiarism." She also attempts to draw a line between when credit is due, and when credit isn't due, because let's face it, attribution can go on forever!
Like much of Nina Paley's work, the video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (cool use of YouTube's CC licensing tools!).
The music is performed by Evanescent, a new project from Bliss Blood (vocals and ukelele) and Al Street (guitar). Bliss Blood (pictured R) is known for playing in myriad other projects (dating back to the Pain Teens!), many of which can be heard right here on the FMA: from Michael Gira's Angels of Light (though not on that album) to The Moonlighters, Delta Dreambox, and Cantonement Jazz Band. Here's a bundle of Bliss Blood-related FMA Music and I picked out a few of the many gems below. You can check out the world of Bliss Blood at blissblood.com.
