The Craft Economy Gets Crafty

Via CBC Radio 2, Toronto band the Craft Economy has begun stapling their CD's to telephone polls along with a statement about Harper's Bill C-61. According to Radio 2 it reads:

"Copyright should protect the rights of artists and producers of creative content, but it should not suppress creative and artistic expression. The Craft Economy has licensed our music, including this CD, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 license. This license gives you the freedom to share our music with your friends and enemies, and remix and use it in new and creative ways, provided you attribute the work back to us, and you don't make money off our work. It's fair for you and us. This is the way art should work."

The Craft Economy has certainly made my radar with this plus they sound a bit like Devo (one of the most influential and creative bands of the last 30 years). I've added the Craft Economy's homepage blog We Make Love to the Music Blogs section of publicbroadcasting.ca and their Myspace Blog to the Band Blogsbecause I admire their courage and creativity and because karma works.