An alternate solution to the Copyright and Creative Commons solution is what Apple is doing by selling Jam Packs for Garage Band. You can purchase royalty free music and clips that you can freely use, remix, and distribute. This is an excellent concept.
What about taking it one more step. Instead of just buying a song on iTunes, you could buy a song in tracks (vocals, percussion, bass) with a remix license. You could then remix the song and upload it back to iTunes for resale. This would benefit all involved especially if the remixer got a small cut on the remix as an incentive to create new culture.
Until the current big media copyright holders give up their strangling death grip on copyrighted works all the good remix work will be underground and never monetized. It would be nice to see some new experimental models appear and see if a new system can be created that benefits both our culture and content creators.
In closing I leave you a link to DUBSTEP HOUSE MIX 2011 by (DJ CASBYK).
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