Something I’ve never understood about Creative Commons is the emphasis on redistribution rights.
For the most part, CC licenses focus on who can upload a copy of a file. A song under any CC license can by uploaded by anybody whose activity fits within the terms of the license. For example, the [...]
In a comment on the cut/copy post, gurdonark posted a mini-manifesto on musician’s web presence.
If I were expressing a similar idea, I might try it this way:
music should be hosted and managed on sites controlled by the musicians
sites controlled by musicians need not follow the rigid label/release dynamics of the past
sites controlled by musicians need [...]
Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article):
If every user who had a cracked copy of Windows had a legitimate version of Linux instead, what would the percentage of computers running Linux be? More than there are now, that’s for sure.
That’s also true for music.
Unauthorized distribution is bad for open media.
gurdonark:
This whole technological revolution is useless [...]
In the conversation about musicians controlling their own web site, Farsheed said:
The trick is getting rid of all the middlemen, and having a *really* reliable URL that represents the band. From there the band can dish out reliable URLs to MP3s (could be 3rd party) which can get aggregated and indexed by search [...]
Ad-Supported Music Central: The Times is a Great Textbook
In any industry the low-cost producer of substitutable goods will always win (whether recorded music is substitutable is open to debate but I would argue that it is, sicne listeners have virtually unlimited choice in what to spend their time listening to). It seems like the recorded [...]
Per NPR
Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource last week. The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than 100 videos yanked from the site. The reason: a music company accused him of copyright infringement for an instructional video on how to play a Rolling Stones song.
Culture relies on shared references. [...]