Oh man, this is awesome! and as icing on the cake, the creator cites all of his sources!

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This is why current "IP" rights need to swing further towards fair use: so you can do this sort of awesomeness. The kid with the trumpet just played a scale; the real value here was added by the remixer, and I think it's bullshit that legally, that trumpet ( Read more... )

Rob pointed me towards an interesting experiment that the Washington Post did: they got a world-class violinist to pose as a busker outside a D.C. subway. It turns out that almost no one stopped to listen or give him money, although several people realized that he was better than a typical street performer. You can listen to the whole 45 minutes of ( Read more... )