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  1. But, Dr Evil, that already happened... by argent · · Score: 1 · on TechDirt's Masnick Responds To Warner's Jim Griffin On Choruss

    The record companies should experiment with sponsoring free, legal download sites in good faith. These sites would feature:

    1) works of expired copyright
    2) works from amateurs, fledgling professionals, and "past market prime" professionals
    3) promotional works from professional artists, including items such as concert tapes
    4) promotional works from the record industry, which would compensate the artists for giving away certain material
    5) works from professionals who believe in sharing everything
    6) works from specialized pros (like many classical musicians) who couldn't make money from selling records anyway

    That already happened (just a few examples):

    1. http://www.trachtman.org/rollscans/RollListing.php
    2. http://garageband.com/
    3. http://3hive.com/
    4. http://www.apple.com/itunes/freesingle
    5. http://last.fm/
    6. http://www.classiccat.net/

  2. What I do by br00tus · · Score: 3, Informative · on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music?
    At work I do not listen to a lot of music, but sometimes there is a lot of noise in the next cubicle, so I put in earphones and listen to music. I do not want to have any MP3's that the RIAA might complain about on my PC at work, since listening to so-and-so is not worth it for me in possibly getting in trouble at work. One thing I do do though is go to YouTube and load music videos of different groups. Usually I am not even watching the video, I'm just listening.


    In terms of MP3's on my work PC, I usually go to Google and type things like "Beethoven mp3" or "Bach mp3" or "Chopin mp3" or the like. All of the recordings I've downloaded have been free. It is not that difficult to produce this stuff - all you need to make a Chopin mp3 is a piano, a microphone and someone who can play Chopin decently. Plenty of people can. Not all of it is amateur though, I've downloaded fine recordings from professional orchestras for free as well. One of the top Google links I get is Classical Cat - the free classical music "cat-alogue".

  3. Re:Sheet music only? by FireFlie · · Score: 5, Informative · on Complete Mozart Works Now Free

    If you want classical mp3s Classic Cat has a large selection of recordings of many composers' works. I believe it is all free and legal. Lot of good stuff.

  4. Questions I missed by musicmaster · · Score: 1 · on An Interview with Wikipedia's Jimbo Wales

    1) What to do about the non-text media?
    Wikipedia says that some pictures are public domain and other have been released by the publisher just for use by Wikipedia. It does not indicate which rights apply to which picture and so we are left with their conclusion that copying is at your own risk. Something similar seems to apply for the sound fragments.
    Shouldn't Wikipedia have a strict PD or GPL license only policy in these areas? Or will it slowly eclipse the copy sites by depriving them of the multimedia files.

    2) Is their a limit to the growth of the articles?
    As a webmaster for a classical music site I regularly check the pages with composer biographies and I have concluded that they keep growing. This leads me to question whether there is a limit to this process. Or will it go on until we have book size documents. More philosophical the question would be: does Wikipedia want to be just an encyclopedia online or does it have the higher goal of including all human knowledge.

  5. Free Classical Music by trygstad · · Score: 1 · on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music

    Actually there's quite a bit of free classical music out there; try http://www.classiccat.net/, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_s ound, http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/ and http://pan.zipcon.net/. The pan.zipcon.net site (functional but not pretty; try DOWNLOAD.html to get to the music) contains much of the catalog of now-defunct Pandora Records from Seattle, who appear to to have had the foresight and courtesy to place their material in the public domain when they closed up shop. I'm sure there's much more but this was just what I found in a brief couple of hours a few months ago.

  6. Opensource music is not the way to go. by musicmaster · · Score: 1 · on Open Source Music
    I am myself working on Classiccat.net, an index of classical music on the internet. Some of the music is hosted by the artists themselves, others are on mp3.com, Vitaminic, etc. I don't care under what license people release their music. They make it available to listen to freely and that is all that most people care about.

    When I look at free music I see the cost of hosting as the main obstacle. Unfortunately up to now their isn't opensource software to help this. Stuff like BitTorrent doesn't give the original host the option to control the copyright and to withdraw the music if it wants so. My ideal kind of software would be so that even companies as mp3.com would use it if they could find the volunteers for hosting. Such kind of software could become the basis on which many music sites could be founded.

    As for licenses: I don't think it is very important that musicians give up all rights on their music - as opensource advocates would like to see. Instead I would like to see the establishment of some registry where musicians could register under what license they release their music. They should also be able to change their license, for example withdrawing their music from free distribution if they want so. Such a license should be simple and the accent should be on things that people want to do with their music, like using it on internet radio (or even real radio) and as samples.