NEW MORPHEUS 4.6 HELPS USERS FIND, CREATE AND PUBLISH THEIR OWN MUSIC, ART, VIDEOS AND OTHER WORKS THROUGH CREATIVE COMMONS |
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Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Danger Mouse & Other Artists’ Authorized Tracks and Samples Now Available To Legally Rip, Mash, Publish And Share Through Morpheus File Sharing Software Los Angeles, November 17th, 2004 - In a move that promotes the free flow of ideas, further empowering content creators to mark and distribute their works, so that others can permissibly receive, and in some cases build upon or share those works StreamCast Networks, Inc., has launched Morpheus 4.6, the first peer-to-peer software to recognize and integrate Creative Commons metadata support. Morpheus 4.6 demonstrates the growing potential and additional non-infringing uses of peer-to-peer software by enabling its users to search specifically for files bearing a Creative Commons license. Users need only enter “cc:sampling” or “cc:sharing” to retrieve results with Creative Commons licenses. The first content to become available includes authorized tracks and music samples from the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Paul Westerberg, Danger Mouse, Chuck D and others from the newly released Wired CD. “We’re thrilled to facilitate content licensed by these superb artists, making it easier for our users to search and download, copy and mash, and then share and distribute with the entire Morpheus user community,” said Michael Weiss, CEO StreamCast Networks. “Peer-to-peer file-sharing and search software is an excellent distribution mechanism for works with Creative Commons metadata, especially large music, picture, and movie files that the authors might not have the bandwidth or tools necessary to distribute themselves.” “I am extraordinarily excited to see that Morpheus will now make it easy for people to recognize the freedoms creators have given. P2P is essential to the growth of the internet. Morpheus helps protect that technology, by demonstrating its amazing potential to enable sharing consistent with the law,” Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, who is chairman of the Commons said. “There are millions of creators who want others to build upon or share their work. Creative Commons enables them to mark their creativity with the freedom they intend.” By making Creative Commons metadata tagging functionality (publish, search, share, download) available via the Morpheus interface, users are provided with an innovative new approach to creativity and copyright in the digital age – an approach that respects creators’ rights to both control their work and share it on their own terms. Using Morpheus to share their works is another demonstration that distribution of digital content can now be achieved instantaneously and without any need for an intermediary. Doctors and s cholars that want their writings and research to be copied and shared so that their ideas spread around the world can easily do so. An established commercial musician might post samples to whet the public's appetite for his other, fully protected songs. A political activist may want her message to reach the widest possible audience through unlimited copying. For whatever reasons, it is clear that many citizens of the Internet want to share their work -- and the power to reuse, modify, and distribute their work -- with others on generous terms. Morpheus supports Creative Commons’ initiative to help people express their preferences for sharing, at no charge. About StreamCast Networks, Inc. About Creative Commons For more information, please contact: Brian O'Neal, Senior Director of Communications, StreamCast Networks, Inc., Phone: (818) 887-8610 ext. 122, Email: [email protected] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copyright © 2004 Streamcast Networks™. All rights reserved. Streamcast Networks, the Morpheus logo, the MusicCity.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks and trade names of Streamcast Networks appearing on this web site are the property of Streamcast Networks, Inc. Morpheus is a trademark of Streamcast Networks. MusicCity and Streamcast Networks do not condone copyright infringement.
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