There are many worthy causes that we should all pay attention to, mainly helping people who wish they had problems like record companies suing them.

Having said that, after basic survival, right after basic survival is freedom of expression and the power of love, together the thing we call ‘art.’

That’s a lot to have at stake.

Matt of Beatmixed has reprinted a cry for help from ‘Mash the Planet” that states the situation plainly, without hysteria and yet very frightening.

I’d like to think that working with Creative Commons on a ’safe’ remix/mash environment is one way I’m trying to help out — convincing “big time” artists that letting their managers, agents and record companies make decisions about what is artistic expression is like asking an Islamo-fascist terrorist to schedule a Hannukah lighting ceremony. (There, see? I’m not afraid to walk right up to the Godwin line even if others like Phillip and Matt are more restrained.)