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Open Source Music

Posted by michael on from the put-your-money-where-your-mike-is dept.

X-Ross writes "As big labels battle it out in a Post-Napster world, open source comes to music ... Creative Commons has a feature on an open source style music site for artists launched by Sal Randolph. Here is the link to her site Opsound."

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  1. Take a look by s20451 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you take a look at the site, it seems to be mostly experimental music. This is stuff that is unlikely to have broad appeal (or large financial value), and is therefore very unlikely to be picked up by a label. Putting it in the public domain is therefore a very appropriate way of getting it out to interested people.

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  2. This isn't new by FreeMars · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe I prefer the model presented at http://penguinsong.net/net/intro

    ...composers and artists maintain copyrights and are entitled to a small royalty. Sampling and modification of existing works is encouraged. It's all about the music, not the dollar.

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  3. Sounds like . . . by cscx · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is NOT NEW. I actually submitted a story about this a full year ago and it got rejected. In fact we have some of these folks on Slashdot right now. My radio station got this guy's CD in the mail... I thought the license was quite interesting so feel free to check out his site here: rootrecords.org

    Although I do see a problem with this just as with some GPL software... how do you prove that your original source was ripped off by someone else, who is now making millions?

  4. copyleft by ratfynk · · Score: 4, Informative
    Why not apply copyleft to sheet music. Here http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/ is an example of some one who already did. The archive which is left to his memory is a statement about the importance of the free dissemination of music script.
    Werner Icking was an inspiration to many musicians, especially in Europe.


    PD music needs more advocates like Iking. A project like Gutenberg only for music is what he tried to get started. His early death is all the more sad because there has been very little done to expand his idea since his death.

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  5. Bookmarklet RIAA Detector by capedgirardeau · · Score: 3, Informative
    RIAA Radar

    If you use Moz you can add a bookmarklet that will tell you if an album is distributed by an RIAA memeber.

    This is from their website:

    What is RIAA Radar?
    The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.

    Neat.

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  6. Don't Forget.. by Universal+Indicator · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget, there are other people out there who have been doing this for awhile too, such as the Open Music Registry.