[RELEASE] CopyCat - Laydown EP #JF1500

Over the course of the last year it became more and more evident that I want jazzfucked to be more than just a blog about music, books, arts 'n shit. Out of the need for such thing, I want it to be a channel for my creative output where I can act freely, not inside a certain scene/genre. I don't wanna give a (jazz)fuck when being creative, you know what I am sayin?! 

Therefore jazzfucked is for me and my creative friends. It's for those weird projects that never have been finished but are too precious to be forgotten. It's for those projects that nobody else wants to publish. It's for those projects with specifications that don't meet common standards. It's for those projects, that don't care about fame and such. Oh, and it's gonna be available for free of course. Free music by and for free minds. All genres, wildstyle. 

The first release is by myself under the name of CopyCat: CopyCat - Laydown EP #JF1500.
Share if you enjoy! 

Summary/Overview "Copyright in the 21st century"

All the buzz about SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and Megaupload has brought the topic copyright on the screens of many people, who probably haven't been aware of that issue before. On Neunetz.com (which happens to be a good blog for all things internet) you can now find a profound summary about copyright and filesharing in the 21st century. 

Marcel Weiss, the author of neunetz.com, is writing about copyright issues since 2007, and you can be sure that he knows what's up. The summary is great for everybody who's just beginnnig to show interest in this topic. Unfortunately, it is written in German, although I think there's a large audience of non-German people and artists (especially in the music-scene in Berlin) which could be interested in those informations too, as they have to deal with it when releasing music over here. 
Therefor, I might translate the most important parts step by step, and publish them on this blog. Let me know If you are one of those readers, it might speed up the progress.

Until then, here's the link to the Summary on Neunetz.com!

SACEM (French GEMA) allows their clients to use non-commercial CC licenses

From yesterday on, French musicians, composers and lyricists, who are members of the SACEM, can license their work under the non-commercial Creative Commons License. I think the german GEMA should allow their clients to do likewise. It would be a step into the right direction, and it would show their goodwill, which I doubt they have at all. For me it seems like the GEMA ist just trying to preserve itself, nothin more. Therefore, I will give some more information on the GEMA soon, and why they suck so bad. 

A thorough article about the new development at SACEM is to be found here.