Give Zoe Keating credit

Recently, NPR used the music of Zoe Keating in a program without credit or attribution. Many people have posted about this, and the story exploded on the internet when writer and actor Wil Wheaton blogged about it and lit a fire under his bazillions of readers (including me) to spread the story.

I’m amazed to find on the NPR website, as of about two minutes ago, absolutely nothing in response to the towering stack of email (oooh, spot the paper-metaphor-using old person) they must have received by now.

The cool thing is that Keating is probably getting way more exposure from angry webizens than she might have got from a properly-given attribution. And she deserves it: she’s pretty amazing. See and hear for yourself, and then please go read Wil Wheaton’s post — it includes a description of how Keating makes this marvelous music, and quotes her (honest and dignified) response to the situation.

Gorgeous music. I’m sorry she hasn’t yet received the credit she deserves from NPR, but I’m very grateful to the InterWeb for bringing her to my attention. How lovely to find such beauty in this pixellated world.

[Edited to add later today: Here’s an update from Wil Wheaton (via Karina). “One final update: A few people from NPR left comments here or on Twitter, and it appears that this was, in fact, a mistake. Reader JV sent me an e-mail just a moment ago with a link to NPR’s website, where they’ve credited Zoe for her music. I’ve always thought NPR were the good guys, and I’m glad that people there made an effort to make things right.”]