Cosmopoetica

From an interview with Jeff Tweedy in NYT Magazine:

Q: Although “Wilco (The Album)” was released on Tuesday, you streamed the songs free online in May after they surfaced illegally on the Internet.

Wilco: As a musician, I don’t want to expend any energy whatsoever preventing people from hearing our music. I think that’s antithetical to the idea of making it. Yes, we streamed it. Basically we set it up so people who felt guilty about stealing our music could donate some money to our favorite charity.

Oh, and he explains why the band is called Wilco, which you may have known, but I didn’t.

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With all the bad decisions and changes making incoherent copyright law even worse, it’s nice to see a bit of good news: UK Rejects Copyright Extension. I stand by what I’ve said before… copyright should be very simple: 14 years automatic plus one 14 year extension possible if the copyright holder chooses to activate it. And I think that’s rather generous!

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