I apologize for the fact that your blog has been drawn into the internet campaign of one disgruntled anti-libertarian who seems to have a particular venom for me, John Berlau, Julie DeFalco and other libertarian writers and groups.

I didn’t write the above comment, and moreover, I do not endorse any of the sentiments contained within it.

– Andrew Langer

I am so tired of hearing about Shostakovich. Yes, 2006 is the 100th anniversary of his birth and he wrote hundreds of symphonies and so on. But, listen, I majored in Soviet Studies and it is all crap. I mean, not one thing he wrote even compares with “Dreaming from the Waist” on “The Who by Numbers”!

The best music is Celtic music followed by guitar rock. You can just keep your piano concertos and so on.

About the only good thing classical music is for is that some girls like it. But, who needs girls when you can just hire prostitutes? My good buddy John Berlau is an expert on prostitution. He’s doing a book on it and it will be seriallized in Reason Magazine and then published by CEI.

A lot of you may or may not know that CEI’s very own Julie DeFalco is an Eastman graduate. They say she can play the viola. I’m not even sure what a viola is. I can tell you that she earns her extra money for her Max Mara boots not by playing the viola but by her webcam business. So there.

I’d write more but it is time for some ice cream. Bagpipes and chocolate chip, a night in heaven!

Andrew Langer

I’d love to hear your thoughts… and perhaps you’d even be able to convince Yahoo! to implement my idea? 🙂

I just wish it was selected by default…

Now with a search engine making cc material so accessable, the public domain should begin to flourish once again!

I know because I found lots of ripped-off copyrighted content there, including content stolen from myself and friends of mine.

Something that could be made much more clear: how do these search engines know what material is CC-licensed and what is not? I’m particularly interested in this when it comes to tagging Ogg Vorbis files and including metadata in webpages.

I maintain the News from Neptune website and the audio files are hosted at the wonderful archive.org. How should I tell search engines that News from Neptune recordings are CC-licensed?

I’ve followed the advice on the CC MP3 page as far as mentioning the words “Creative Commons” on the site, linking to the appropriate license, and mentioning the same in the copyright tag in every Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Speex show file we distribute. But I’m not sure that is the proper way to go about being found by search engines that care about CC-licensed works in particular.

I’d like to do something on the server end (or supply end, when I generate the audio files) so that I don’t have to register with any search engine (any registration approach simply doesn’t scale up to dozens of search engines looking for CC-licensed works).

I’d also like to get official plain text copies of CC licenses so I can include a copy of the license with the work. This way people will know what their rights are by sharing files in the most ordinary way. This will be particularly helpful if they don’t have an Internet connection, or can’t get to the CC site (for whatever reason). My plan is to include the entire text of the chosen license in an appropriately named Ogg tag (say, “License”).