More than a dozen years into the war on sampling, postmodern music is proving impossible to turn off. Read the Globe & Mail article.

Mozilla mozcc: Nathan Yengler brings us this nifty extension for the Mozilla browser (Firefox). The mozcc extension allows browsers to recognize cc-licensed content and display the rights reserved.

Mozilla and CC content - a match made in heaven? For those of you who haven’t yet discovered: The Mozilla Firefox browser includes Creative Commons content as a search choice.

DJ Spooky relies heavily on sampling in his work as a DJ and musician. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that his new book and CD sample audio recordings of some of literature’s great remixers: writers whose work “sampled” other people’s material. Read the Wired article.

The Digital Copyright Canada forum was started in Aug 2001 to allow for a public response to that phase of the Canadian copyright revision process. While the forum focuses on digital copyright, related issues of patents, copyright, trademarks (PCT) and other sui generis protections are discussed.

The Petition is a way of letting Parliament know that you want to be considered and that you don’t want your rights to be abraded every time the music industry’s profits slip a little. Sign the Petition.