Monday, February 15, 2010

Josh Woodward Part II of Assignment #3

This is a picture of the early pioneer of "Creative Commons"; and was taken in 2007 (www.wikipedia.org/joshwoodward)




Josh Woodward is from Findlay, Ohio and was tired of all the comotion of Napster; because of the downloading of artists' songs for free and the lawsuits that followed.  He is a singer and a songwriter and decided to fight back and placed a 150 of his original songs on his website for people to download for free and to encourage them to buy CD's through "Snickers Records"(http://www.joshwoodward.com/).  As a result of this briliant idea to allow people to download his music for free, it has led to "Creative Commons" to have millions of downloads a day.  The internet for freelancers or creative people using "Creative Commons" gives them the ability to showcase their talent or lack of to a niche audience.  As for Josh Woodward, he has had over a million downloads of his music and noteriety, too.

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