{"id":517,"date":"2007-05-11T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/the-beauty-of-creative-commons-the-code-monkey-story\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T13:02:09","slug":"the-beauty-of-creative-commons-the-code-monkey-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/the-beauty-of-creative-commons-the-code-monkey-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The beauty of Creative Commons – The “Code Monkey” story"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this guy named Jonathan Coulton quit his job as a software analyst and created this song which he licensed under Creative Commons.<\/p>\n

This is himself singing the song live:<\/p>\n

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but since it’s licensed under Creative Commons, anyone can use the Intelectual Property and do fun things,
\nso these guys decided to make a Video for the song:<\/p>\n

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and then another guy grabed the World of Warcraft World Modeler and did another video…<\/p>\n

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and my favorite, one made with The Sims 2.<\/p>\n

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Go to Jonathan Coulton’s web site to hear the song and learn the lyrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can support Jonathan by buying his song for only $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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