[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)
Christopher Budnick
cbudnick at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 20:43:54 EST 2007
On Nov 18, 2007 7:59 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> 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).
I would say that the project Greg described hasn't yet been realised
(though WFMU/Antenna Alliance & Free Culture are all working on it).
I only listened briefly to 10 or so of those tracks, just now, but as
far as I could tell they were all electronic.
This is one of the big problems that we've had with talking to artists
about licensing their existing and new material liberally: so much of
the free stuff right now is bad electronica. I don't know the history
of that project you linked to, but this is a problem with a lot of the
material on ccMixter, and it's the same problem with most music, most
of it's bad, most of it's electronica (on the internet, at least). I
agree with you that organization and discovery are fungible, as are
the tasks of convincing the best local and non-local bands you know to
release their existing and new music to the commons.
christopher
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