cool, looking forward to your contributions! it's not an attempt to get quick access to free stuff. i do hope i get material that is inspiring, and takes the album in directions i didn't think of myself. yeah, we're working on several ideas about what to do with the resulting album in addition to releasing it in a traditional way. here's a comment that was used in a recent interview; sums up the motivation behind the project:
"Collaboration is the way forward. We have to rethink how we deal with intellectual property. Creative Commons is a good start. The way we all discover, consume, share, recommend music / art has changed dramatically over the last few years, invented and driven by ourselves. We have already decided how we want things to work, so it’s about time institutions / legal frameworks are adjusted to catch up. The current attitude of the indusrty (DRM, calling people pirates, etc) only causes polarization between consumers and the industry, and causes a whole generation to grow up in a climate with disregard for intellectual property. This project is an attempt to set an example on how the changed infrastructure and culture can be seen as an environment for creation, inspiration, collaboration, fun, fair treatment of all collaborators and their material, and hopefully a cool end result".
