This video of Kermit the Frog singing plaintively (about his love for Miss Piggy?) has been making the rounds for at a while and it brings up an interesting discussion of cultural appropriation and copyright — when is it acceptable to use someone else’s work for your own entertainment? This video is simultaneously making a [...]
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I am really enjoying Nine Inch Nails The Slip thus far. This morning the full-length album was made available free of charge on the NIN.com, withe the following message:
the slip is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.
we encourage you to
remix it
share it with your friends,
post it on [...]
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So yesterday Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails unveiled his latest album, a two-hour instrumental offering called Ghosts I-IVexclusively online. He did it without any mainstream promotion, though within the NIN fandom there had been over two weeks of anticipation, based on a very cryptic post left on the nin website/blog. So while the NIN [...]
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