cre8radix is a musician, music producer and free culture activist. He is one of the founding members of the p-pack, a berlin-based network of artists and activists from all fields of the communication sector. since the year 1987 he has released various records with his different bands and projects. as an ex-member of the GEMA, he is familiar with the structures of various commercial compensation systems within the media industries. He is a passionate supporter of free license systems, such as GNU-gpl or creative commons by-sa-2.0 as a way to spread and promote the idea of free culture. as the former press officer of the c-base, he represents a crew of scientists, software developers, hackers, artists and people, who are deeply rooted within the open source community. along with jörg baach, saul albert and others, he started working on the copycan project in 2006. copycan is a tool, based on the street performer protocol. copycan allows producers of digital content, to get paid for the release of their work. the type of content can be anything which could technically be attached to an e-mail. once it has been released under a free license, the content can circulate freely within the cycle of free culture.