[R-G] Toronto band staples CC-licensed CDs to phone poles

[Anthony Fenton]

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/16/craft-economy-toront.html

Canadian rockers The Craft Economy -- whom we blogged last year when  
they stapled their CC-licensed CDs to telephone poles -- have done it  
again. Only this time, the CDs they've stuck up (the demo for their  
next commercial release) are also part of the band's protest against  
Bill C-61, Canada's answer to the American Digital Millennium  
Copyright Act.
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The disc, containing a demo of "Menergy," a track off of the band's  
upcoming record (due late August) isn't simply Creative Commons  
licensed music like their previous hydro pole-only release, this time  
it's a Bill C-61 protest too (see that little piece of paper sticking  
out of the back of the disc? Yeah, that's the protest part). It reads,  
in part: This is far and beyond and more bizarre than the heavily  
criticized DMCA in the USA. Copyright should protect the rights of  
artists and producers of creative content, but it should not suppress  
creative and artistic expression. The Craft Economy has licensed our  
music, including this CD, using the Creative Commons Attribution- 
Noncommercial 2.5 license. This license gives you the freedom to share  
our music with your friends and enemies, and remix and use it in new  
and creative ways, provided you attribute the work back to us, and you  
don?t make money off our work. It?s fair for you and us. This is the  
way art should work.)