{"id":37727,"date":"2011-11-06T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/from-a-lawyer-standpoint-an-api-is-a-very\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:25:35","slug":"from-a-lawyer-standpoint-an-api-is-a-very","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/from-a-lawyer-standpoint-an-api-is-a-very\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&ldquo;From a lawyer standpoint, an API is a very efficient contract,&rdquo; says Lucchese. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s as if you said, &lsquo;Here&rsquo;s my stuff, and here are the rules, and as long as you play by the rules, we&rsquo;re good to go.&rsquo; &rdquo; Legitmix accomplishes this automated licensing process in a particularly clever way. Rather than asking the artist to pay for the rights to the sample, Legitmix asks the end consumer of a mix or track to buy the songs that are part of the remixed work. Legitmix also gives a cut to bloggers who feature the track or mix. In other words, Legitmix isn&rsquo;t just a track licensing platform, it&rsquo;s also a gigantic self-reinforcing affiliate network for selling new music. And if you&rsquo;re wondering why artists finally signed on to something like this, forgoing their usual up-front licensing fees, it&rsquo;s probably because copyright law has been so broken that mega-hit albums like Danger Mouse&rsquo;s Grey album, which mashed up Jay-Z&rsquo;s The Black Album and the Beatles&rsquo; The White Album, made no one any money at all, unless you count the positive effects it had on Danger Mouse&rsquo;s reputation and concert sales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/mimssbits\/27294\/\">Legitmix Ends the Music Sampling Deadlock &#8211; Technology Review<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;From a lawyer standpoint, an API is a very efficient contract,&rdquo; says Lucchese. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s as if you said, &lsquo;Here&rsquo;s my stuff, and here are the rules, and as long as you play by the rules, we&rsquo;re good to go.&rsquo; &rdquo; Legitmix accomplishes this automated licensing process in a particularly clever way. Rather than asking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}