In case you haven’t heard about this before: Wired Magazine has worked together with Creative Commons and several music labels to put together a CD of music which is being released under the Sampling Plus license which permits you to take and transform parts of the songs, and to share the original or the transformed songs! In fact, as long as you’re not in advertising, you may even use samples from most of them in your commercial work, although three of the sixteen songs on the CD are licensed under Noncommercial Sampling Plus license — which does not permit any commercial use, but still allows you to share the music freely and to play with it for other purposes.

The full list of songs is available and in the Wired magazine article, and of course, the CD is with the magazine on newstands now, and the original tracks will be available on the creative commons’ wired page tommorrow, in case you haven’t already found them through Kazaa, LimeWire, Morpheus or some other file sharing network. On the downside, there’s not actually any music here that I’m really interested in, but that’s probably mostly my tastes and the fact that I haven’t been keeping up with the pop scene, and don’t recognize half these names. On the upside, maybe someone will make something interesting out of this stuff … and we’ll be hearing bits of “Fake French” in songs for years to come… [ ]

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