The Harvard Berkman Center hosted David Weinberger and his special guest, musician Brad Sucks (née Brad Turcotte) tonight. Brad was one of the first musicians to put his music on the Internet under the Creative Commons license. As he put it, it never occurred to him that music shouldn't be shared and in fact measured his success by Scott Adams' copy test, which says that the only reliable test of whether your work is good is whether someone wants to copy it to show to someone you don't know.
One of the unexpected results of his willingness to share was that one of his songs, Dirtbag, was remixed as part of the ending of an Israeli video mashup of Toy Story 2 and Requiem for a Dream, which was heard by William Gibson, causing Gibson to track down the song and inspiring him to create the character Milgrim in his most recent book, Spook Country.
Steve Garfield has a video of the event here.
