Creative License: The Law of Culture and Digital Sampling is a compelling new book that explores the complexities and contradictions in how music samples are licensed within the current copyright landscape. Including interviews with more than 100 stakeholders in the sampling community – from David Byrne, Cee-Lo Green, George Clinton, De La Soul, DJ Premier, DJ Qbert, Eclectic Method, El-P, Girl Talk, Matmos, Mix Master Mike, Negativland, Public Enemy, RZA, Clyde Stubblefield and T.S. Monk – Creative License puts digital sampling into an historical, cultural, and legal context.

Future of Music Coalition (FMC) is proud to collaborate with authors Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, Duke University Press, and Words Beats and Life to celebrate the release of Creative License with a Washington, DC event featuring DiCola and special guests.

What: Book conversation & panel with co-author Peter DiCola, Producer/DJ Roddy Rod, and DJ 2-Tone Jones, Producer & Co-creator of Shaolin Jazz
When: Saturday, April 16, 2011
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Where: Busboys and Poets, 14th and V Streets NW, Washington, DC
  Register

Live webcast, courtesy web.illish.us: