Creative Commons Netherlands has released the physical cd/dvd with musical and visual talent from the Lowlands. I’ve been one of the people behind this project and I can assure you this was one of my most difficult projects I’ve ever done. Although we’ve made some mistakes and had some setbacks, I’m more than happy with the outcome. I wasn’t the only one working on this off course. It certainly could not have been done without the help of various people:

Thanks to Marco Raaphorst for the excellent mastering (although I forgot to mention this on the package, sorry Marco!!!!), thanks Guno and Sander for helping us with the difficult task of picking a mere thirteen songs from more than a 130(!) songs sent in by more than 50(!) different artists. Thanks to Paul Keller and Syb Groeneveld (public projectleaders of Creative Commons Netherlands) for making this project a reality, thanks to JobJorisenMarieke for doing a great job with the graphical and dvd design, thanks to Tapes for an excellent printing and pressing job and last but not least thanks to all the participating creatives on this cd/dvd! Without your work there wasn’t a cd/dvd!

Absolutely no thanks to the Dutch collection society BUMA/STEMRA, which prevented their members from participating in this project with their 19th century contracts! Please stop being so stubborn and accept that Creative Commons can be combined with your collecting society, just as it is possible in The United States. Start changing your contracts and methods and do something useful for your members! For pete’s sake its 2007!

For all artists on the cd/dvd, please upload your work to Simuze as well and let’s start building our own community!

Enough talking, start downloading the dvd from the Creative Commons Netherlands website!

Enjoy ze musica!

ps: You can also get the physical DVD (as long as it’s available!), just send a self-stamped A5-envelop (minimal 21×15 cm) with € 1,76 (for the Netherlands!!, other countries need probably more!) worth of stamps (four stamps of 44 eurcent) to:

Creative Commons Nederland
p/a Nieuwmarkt 4,
1012 CR Amsterdam

Links:

- The CD/DVD got mentioned on Nu.nl, one of the most populair Dutch newssites! ‘Nederlands Creative Commons brengt cd en dvd uit‘

- Waag Society (my former employer) has even made ‘Her private Playground’ as movie (music by Quallofill | visuals by Mouz) available on their site with this news. See this link

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