although I guess blocSonic references a UK netlabel that lasted a year in like 2010. I guess things come and go all the time, but it seems like a lot of things that have been around a while are dying without replacement.
Another example: whatever happened to the White Market Podcast?
Unsurprisingly, Open Music Network is struggling to get off the ground.
In happier news, the sun decided to come out here in Minneapolis.
Car addicts seem to only be able to talk from a perspective of car addiction. Meanwhile, people who have or who are working on escaping car addiction seem to be able to grasp a wider variety of perspectives. As pedestrians, as transit riders, as cyclists.
You just get better comprehension and policy from people who can percieve transportation in more ways than through the windshield of their private automobile.
if the US Congress was capable of anything, they could do that too.
New Zealand is a common law country too, but leaving things to the courts is largely tradition in any common law country...a tradition some countries keep more than others.
Then Music Manumit dies in July 2018. Then FMA essentially dies in December 2018.
I know plenty of people are still putting out #ccmusic, so maybe "dead" is hyperbolic.
It's actively dying though. CCMA was an attempt to make the illness not terminal, but it may have made things worse. It certainly led directly to the dying of Music Manumit.
Moving forward...
ccMixter is being put under a lot of pressure by the really shitty Creative Commons organization. They did the same thing to #CCMA.
If ccMixter is to not meet the same fate as FMA, people need to support them now, before it is too late.
The fact that there haven't been a lot of suits suggests CC is working great.
As for clarity without a court ruling, that's just not how contracts work in a common law country. Even if there was a case, in say California, it would have little relevance to how a court would interpret in say, Alabama.
It's different in civil law countries, and probably different in other common law countries. The US has so many districts, it's hard to know.
We aren't completely without case law, of course. There's the Verizon case, for one.