The most interesting part of this assignment for me, aside from the author's comments about Iowa that is, was the difference in fair use. This is something that we in the academic world are very familiar with. If we use a piece of information, or a quote of a reasonable length then we simply give them due credit by a citation. However this is not the practice in the music world, admitidly album covers would turn into phone books if this practice was followed by some bands of the bands mentioned in the article, or others such as Enigma ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08&ob=av2e and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_%28musical_project%29 ).
Though with the plethora of digital releases these days it could become even simpler, just attach a credits section to the MP3 file description, they already have space for artist, album, genre and others built into the file extension a little more text wouldn't change a whole lot. Will this ever happen? Doubtful if copy rights continue to be a major revenue stream for companies with massive lobbying budgets, but its a nice thought experiment.
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