Webbed Hand Records

Ambient and Experimental Music Netlabel

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Webbed Hand Records has licensed all of its netlabel releases under a Creative Commons licenses. It’s a legally binding copyright license which (as the CC website states) lies somewhere on the “spectrum between full copyright –all rights reserved– and the public domain –no rights reserved.”

I have chosen to assign CC copyrights to the work because I am not very happy with traditional “Mickey Mouse” copyright laws (all rights reserved, life + 70 years), because they inhibit the sharing of ideas and keep works out of the public domain for too long. Most of the albums in our catalog are non-commercial Netlabel releases, and I want to encourage sharing of the work, by such means as file-sharing or old-fashioned trading of home-made mix tapes/CDs. I also want to set an example for other artists. If we all begin placing our work under Creative Commons licenses, we may be able to undermine the tyranny of intellectual property laws.

The following Creative Commons license is being used by Webbed Hand, and the works listed below the license link are those to which it has been applied (see the catalog for detailed information about each release):




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This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.




Creative Commons License


This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

These licenses are subject to change.

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  • 1 Samuel Reece // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    I am an individual film maker. I have put together a documentary film on the life and times of the 19th Century African American poet PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. In the process, I have filmed over 225 recitals of Dunbar’s poems. I have recently come across a video recital of Dunbar’s “The Old Apple Tree”, which is a spendid depiction of the power of Dunbar’s work. That video is on YOUTUBE, by Urgelt and Narcoleptus. I have received permission from Narcoleptus and from Urgelt to include that video recital in my documentary. Since the ending of that video contains the prayerful “Ubi Caritas” instrumental by Eremos, I am asking Eremos’s permission to include that video poetry recital, which includes his music, in my commercial video. In exchange, I will give a film credit to Eremos with the title of the musical piece. Please let me know whether I may include this wonderful video recital in my documentary. Thank you for your anticipated courtesy and cooperation in this matter.

    Samuel Reece

  • 2 C.P. McDill // Jul 11, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    Thanks for writing. It sounds like a wonderful project, and I’ll gladly forward your request to the artist Eremos.

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