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

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Sun Nov 18 21:03:09 EST 2007


> I suspect we are not far from, or may have already reached,
> the goal of 10 thousand songs licensed under CC-BY-SA

> CC's creative director earlier this year for a
> project (100 *good* tracks under CC BY).

> The question is one of organization and discovery.
> Surely those are "fungible" tasks, no?

Sure. Except compare that to software that doesn't
have a "discovery" problem like music does, and
I think you just proved that there is fundamental
differences between music and software that music
has to deal with.

You write software, you write some documentation.
You throw it up on the web, and Google does the
discovery for you.

If I"m looking for a CC-BY song that will make
me feel the same energy and emotions that I feel
when I listen to AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds" song,
I can't google that. You don't know how it makes
me feel. You can approximate how it makes you feel,
and then somehow tag the music with that information,
and then give me a special search engine that will
look for these tags. But that isn't the same as
software, is it?

That was my point.

I didn't say free music can't be done.
I said it will have to be done differently.

If "done-ability" is your only criteria, then
sure, music and software are exactly the same.

If you allow more categories for comparison,
then fundamental differences show up.
Differences that can be overcome and can be "done".
But differences, none the less.

I keep saying "Different"
and you keep replying "Doable".

lets call the whole thing off.

> 100 *good* tracks under CC BY

The important question is whether or not
it contains both kinds of music:

Country AND Western.

Greg


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