[cc-licenses] sampling + 1.0 and remix competition, with prize for winner

Nova Christopher n23ova at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 5 18:13:03 EDT 2006


Good points.  I started a 'netlabel' for the same
reasons you speak of, being inspired by open-source
and free music and, well, free stuff in general.  Why
spend a lot of money when I can use something else,
and it will do everything I need it to?  Unfotunately,
this is often not the case with music-making software.
 I suspect that's why most of them cost money...
someone has found an opportunity to capitalize on some
novel ideas.


In the case of offering a prize, I do feel the
software I choose to award will be very fitting for
the contestants.  But in the case of offering free
software that was made free (open-source, or freeware
or even some shareware) it might feel less like a
'prize' since anyone else could simply download it,
and not necessarily have to provide anything in
exchange (such as a winning song).  I do like the idea
of exchange or 'barter,' especially when it is not
completely dependent on dollars and cents (which is
almost impossible in our culture).

Thanks for your input!



--- Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com>
wrote:

> Nova Christopher wrote:
> >  is gifting someone a prize, even if it 'cost' me
> something, the same
> >  as 'free?' it is, after all, free to the would-be
> winner of this
> >  competition...
> 
> Drew's talking about supporting free-licensed
> software to produce
> free-licensed art.
> 
> The point is that "People who like freedom like
> freedom", so they'll
> probably prefer free-licensed tools. Thus the $99
> may be wasted
> if it's spent on proprietary software.
> 
> I'm a graphic artist and a programmer more than a
> musician. If you
> gave me a copy of Photoshop I'd play around with it
> for a bit, but I'd
> go right back to the Gimp, because I like free
> software tools. That
> reflects my cultural identification with
> free-culture and free-software
> -- I mean, if I'm sold enough on the idea to release
> my own stuff
> under a free-license, it stands to reason I'm sold
> enough to be a
> user of free-licensed stuff.
> 
> A $99 piece of hardware (e.g. MIDI card, synth, etc
> -- I'm sorry I don't
> know enough about this stuff to know what $99 will
> buy) might be
> a more popular and/or effective prize for musicians
> who feel the
> same way I do.
> 
> Or a training session, book, tech-support or other
> free-software
> tool tie-in.
> 
> It's just a question of fitting the prize to the
> people entering the
> contest.  No doubt you've already spent the $99, so
> don't fret over
> it, but it's an idea for next time. ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry
> 
> -- 
> Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
> Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
> 
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