Hungry Artists Feed Hungry People

It was great news.. when i found out that how far and walk the streets were used to make some cool independent films about life in Bangladesh and also life after the cyclone, thanks Shawn. The tracks were able to be used in these films because of the Creative Commons licenses attached to tracks. No publisher or lawyer had to participate in the use of this work. I reckon CC licenses are changing things radically for use of content.

Its great to be able to help.

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“I bought a camera, grabbed my computer, and flew to Bangladesh to see if I could make a difference. ” what a dude.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92-DNzNMHYw

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Solutions to problems around us can be found by sharing and communicating ideas.

Reform APRA. Getting music artists in Australia to put pressure on APRA (collection society) to create a one member one vote system. Currently voting rights are structured so that for every 500 dollars that an artist or publisher collects, the artist or publisher gets one extra vote. With new technologies it makes sense to have equal voting rights for all members. Consider that the conditions that the board of APRA create, effect the way that members and non members deal with commercial and non-commercial spaces . APRA members are not able to use a creative commons license and remain within the terms of the agreement that the board of APRA maintain. Websitemyspace

Hungry Artists Feed Hungry People. Artists giving up commercial rights for the use of their content to a charity of choice. HAFHPmyspace icommonsOpenbusiness

Artist Press Kit. Creating a press kit (media station) for artists, where the media comes to the artist rather than the artist going to the media. openbusinessicommons

Create Incentives For Artists to be Artists. Create an organization that would collect
and distribute works that would be used in commercial streams.
Encourage artists to license works allowing commercial use. Create
incentives for artists. icommons

Titanic Radio. Why
not bring Wiki, Creative Commons, Public Domain content together and
make it available for broadcast through a wireless network to a device
with unlimited channels ?
Decentralized "broadcasting" network.website icommons

Explain creative commons licenses to Artists. The objective of this project is to give
balanced advice to artists on the advantages, disadvantages, risks and
rewards that their use of Creative Commons licenses may involve. Icommonswikifacebook

any feedback is much appreciated. jam@iarts.CC

WWW.IARTS.CC

Previously it seemed the best idea was for hungry artists to adapt to other organizations. I see the process now differently. Working with company’s that deal in distribution of art is not easy. HAFHP looks to be a non-profit.

The Plan.

HAFHP defines its mission.
HAFHP sets up as a non-profit organization.
HAFHP looks for sponsors to back the project.
HAFHP builds a website.

If you want to be involved or help with this process in any way send an email info@hafhp.org

Created by Nanna Lange & Philippe

*Before the summit I created information at this link for a presentation.

*At the summit I created this node.

*After the summit I put the idea to the link.

*After the summit I moved the old hafhp space to a wordpress, you can view the old site at this link.

*You can view the support of the HAFHP project at this myspace link.

*You can view support for the project at this link ,still needs to be updated.

After going to the Isummit in Dubrovnik I have a very different take on the the hafhp project. The values of the project seem a little more established in my mind and I can see clearly how the hafhp license can work. I see the hafhp project as a bridge for the free culture movement to the commercial world and also a bridge for commercial world to the free culture movement. The way forward for the artist seems to be to have a balance. Creative commons partly removes the need for the artist to have to deal with the business of music. HAFHP potentially creates the opportunity for art to be used in the commercial world with little effort on the side of the artist.

Talk by Lawrence Lessig from the summit 2007 in Dubrovnik