[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Sun Nov 18 19:59:19 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 21:02 -0500, Greg London wrote:
> Music is fungible along song boundaries.

Ignoring what fungible means for a minute...

> But I don't see any projects around Free Music
> that have something bigger as a final goal.
> Ten thousand songs all licensed CC-BY-SA?
> Spanning the entire list of genres and styles?
> A Free repository of music that anyone can download
> and listen to, and that has enough content that
> will likely have something that everyone will enjoy?
> 
> OK. That might do it.
> 
> Now how do you get there?
> Every song is created by a benevolant tyrant,
> a single person or a small group, a band.
> Every song takes months to create.
> And you will need several thousand songs to
> get to the point of having a generically useful
> Free Music Library that people can go to and
> listen to something they like. Fill their ipods
> with gigabytes of stuff.

I suspect we are not far from, or may have already reached, the goal of
10 thousand songs licensed under CC-BY-SA (or compatibly under BY or
PD).  The question is one of organization and discovery.  Surely those
are "fungible" tasks, no?

http://ccmixter.org/media/playlist/browse/44 is one small step toward
this put together by CC's creative director earlier this year for a
project (100 *good* tracks under CC BY).

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