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

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Mon Nov 19 17:15:41 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 11:26 -0500, Elizabeth Stark wrote:
> 
> 
> On Nov 18, 2007 8:43 PM, Christopher Budnick <cbudnick at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         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.
> 
> Yup, hopefully the FMA and OLPC Free Music project and Rrcd Lbl will
> change this, but I find it extremely difficult to find *any* CC music
> that I actually really like. I'm also a big fan of electronic music,
> so that says something. What I did find that was effective was getting
> artists who I knew to release music that I liked under CC for the OLPC
> project (some of which is BY-SA), but it took a lot of
> convincing...(Seems like it's the easiest way to find CC music that I
> like though.) 
> 
> I may be missing some of the CC music scene, but whenever I go to try
> to find CC music, I may find something that is halfway decent, but my
> bar should be if I'd actually like it if it weren't CC. And I am
> admittedly picky, so that's a pretty high bar to pass. 

Sounds like some brilliant niches for business:

* recommendation engines
* high-quality distributor/curation

>From my daily meetings with businesses about CC, there are new
interesting projects coming up all the time in these fields...and, its
not just an issue with CC-licensed music, but a general issue about
finding a needle in the haystack wrt to quality content.

If there is anyone out there with a business or project idea in this
area, please drop it here and/or send me an email offlist to push it...

Jon


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