[cc-community] Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music

Michael David Crawford michael at geometricvisions.com
Sat Nov 17 20:04:48 EST 2007



Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> I do think that not making possible/emphasizing machine-readable
> attribution from the beginning was a missed opportunity for CC, as links
> are the currency of the web (primarily through driving
> pagerank->traffic->ad revenue).

One way that anyone who posts content on the Web (CC-licensed or 
otherwise) can earn money is by publishing advertising, for example 
Google AdSense (https://www.google.com/adsense/).

I have a single page with the attribution-noderivs license that, at its 
peak, earned USD $5000 per month, and still earns significant money. It 
has been republished to several other sites, but my original copy still 
ranks ahead of all the other copies in the search results.

I'm working on a whole new website whose eventual ad revenue should pay 
my way through music school.  (I aim to change careers from software 
engineering to musical composition.)

This is why musicians shouldn't depend solely on music hosting sites 
like MySpace to distribute their music; MySpace would earn all the ad 
revenue, and not the content creator.

Michael David Crawford
michael at geometricvisions.com
http://www.geometricvisions.com/ <-- Creative Commons Writing and Music


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