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Excellent, now I can hear about the snippets of your life you care to share after my time here runs out. You sound like the kind of photographer I would have been if I'd kept the habit, but these days I'm more interested in the music/video bit. It's been on my mind ever since youtube had to start muting stuff that had music from soundtracks owned by one corporate asshole gestalt or another. It bugs me that the people who wrote the music don't own or control it...

*glances at sets* Hmm, sounds familiar.

Anyone who's been part of a creative process that involves more than one person should know that all kinds of cool things can happen as ideas bounce between them. Seeing your work being used in a new and unexpected way can be good for your growth as an artist, and even if you don't like what's been done with it, you can appreciate it for exposing your work to a wider audience. So it seems to me that the record companies are sabotaging themselves whenever they silence the work of the musicians they supposedly represent.

The Creative Commons copyright license is something all new musicians should take a look at.