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About Me

The Blackspot Music Point System is licensed under a Creative Commons License Public Domain. Take it, use it, make it better.

The Blackspot Music Note is an Open Source Anti-Logo in the Public Domain.

It is a symbol of resistance against multinational music Corporations like Viacom [owners of MTV, VH-1, Nickelodeon, UPN, BET, Blockbuster Video, CBS, Comedy Central] that, over the past few years, have come to dominate so much of our lives. The Blackspot Music Note, is for kicking mega-corporate ass and transforming the music industry, into a more diverse, grassroots affairs.

Find out more about Blackspot Music Point System , Blackspot Music Anti-Labels, ETC. by clicking the poster below.

My Interests

This Blackspot Music Point System is licensed under a Creative Commons License Public Domain.

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As a Blackspot Music Artist, you will be in control of all your Intellectual Property (IP). Never allow for contractual agreements that rob you of your rights, where your artistic creations are concerned. If you want to be a Blackspot Music Artist, and are already down with the Blackspot Music Point System . Then you are already a Blackspot Music Artist!
UPDATE: For as long as this page has been up we have been posting some amazing blogs, not quite as frequently as we would like to have the time for...But any Musicians out there who are interested in taking/keeping control of their Music and Intellectual Property in this age of Direct Communication, we encourage you to take a hard look at the large volume of information now posted in the Blackspot Music Blog and to subscribe for further updates on 'The cruel shallow money trench' that is the corporate music world in order to stay smart and avoid it at all costs!
THX and Good Luck to all of you!

Music:

Digital rights management is good for business, but bad for Bands and their Fans to be restricted by that corporate business model.

Books:

Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, Fight the Power by Chuck D, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow, Geek Mafia by Austin McKinley, Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn, Test Card F by AK Press, Media Control by Noam Chomsky, Amusing Ourself to Death by Neil Postman, When Corporations Rule the World by D. Korten, War and Peace in the Global Village by McLuhan, The Mission of Art by Alex Grey, WorldChanging: User's guide for the 21st Century.

Heroes:

Lawrence Lessig, CCMixter.org, Adbusters.org, Boingboing.net, David Byrne, recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com, creativecommons.org, indieish.com, cc-gems.blogspot.com, copyfight.corante.com, cchits.ning.com, www.positronrecords.com/cc/, drmfree.org/, http://defectivebydesign.org, EFF.org, musiciansagainstsweatshops.org, copyfight.corante.com, some-assembly-required.net/blog, releasethemusic.org, .

My Blog

Secret super-copyright treaty MEMO leaked

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 6, 2008 12:44 AM | permalink Wikileaks has the full text of a memo concerning the dread Anti-Counterfeiting Trade A...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:10:00 PST

the Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust !

My Dearest Friends and Fans, It is my greatest honor to present to you The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, my new album produced by Trent Reznor and mixed by Alan Moulder. The wall...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00:00 PST

House passes bill to let RIAA take homes for downloading

The House of Reps has passed HR 4279, with the lovely name, PRO-IP (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008). Like the doublespeak PATRIOT Act and Peacekeeper mis...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:57:00 PST

To all Bands on This Friends List !

To all the Bands and Labels, I would like to extend my gratitude by helping you all to promote your Bands music through this profile.I will be making a Project Playlist player and would appreciate you...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Thu, 08 May 2008 11:03:00 PST

Think Like a Dandelion: advice for understanding reproductive strategies in the Internet era

by Cory Doctorow, May 6, 2008 10:52 PM | permalink My latest column in Locus Magazine, "Think Like a Dandelion," came out of a talk I had with Neil Gaiman about t...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:38:00 PST

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

By Clay ShirkyApril 26, 2008 10:48 AM Permalink (This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech given at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.) "It's precisely when no one has any idea how to ...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:23:00 PST

NIN Ghosts - Free Legal Download!

US$750k for NIN The $300 "ultra deluxe edition" of Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV, limited to 2500 copies, sold out in a couple days. There are some manufacturing costs, but they don&rsqu...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:51:00 PST

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly.orgPosted on March 4, 2008 The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I t...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:54:00 PST

20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time

From turning down the Beatles to stomping Napster the most ill-advised, foolhardy and downright idiotic decisions ever made by The Man. Jon Dolan, Josh Eells, Fred Goodman...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:53:00 PST

Better than Free

Here's a snip from the latest post on Kevin Kelly's Technium blog: Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow with as little friction as possible. Inde...
Posted by Blackspot Music on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:06:00 PST