Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

["tompoe AT renonevada.net" <tompoe AT renonevada.net>]

Hi:  Well, here's what's happened in my little corner over just a few 
months:
1] www.musicbrainz.org has a model for metadata about artists, 
recordings, etc.  Seems close to easy-to-use.  There will be others that 
are even easier to use, I'm sure.
2] www.studioforrecording.org has a model for community-based recording 
studios that offer free recording services to residents of the 
community, putting out high-quality CD's.
3] www.creativecommons.org has a model for registering works that 
permits individuals to have the same level of legal services as the 
corporations do.  And, in just a few clicks, can protect their works 
under the Public Domain with Restrictions.

In the not-too-distant future, we'll see repositories [we're building 
one primitive version] that offer you and I the ease of access that we 
now look to hollywood media to provide for "hits".  Go to a repository 
like the musicbrainz.org site, pick out a genre, click on download, 
listen to samples, download .ogg files, purchase full CD packages [CD's 
that mix and match to your personal preference], purchase other products 
for gifts to relatives and friends, and see where the artist is playing 
live, buy tickets, etc.  This isn't as glamorous, but is so filled with 
quality and listening pleasure, there will be no need to look anywhere 
else, but to our friends and contacts for choices we haven't come across.

For most, in the not-too-distant future, music will be obtained through 
public access, local hype, and regional hype, and international hype. 
The RIAA will, yes, will die a slow and painful [hopefully] death. 
Individual bands will use the model of the prototype, Grateful Dead, who 
gave away their music, and made their money selling their products, and 
tours, and concerts.  It's beginning to happen.  No huge blockbuster 
stars, just hugely successful business strategies using the internet.

We, at Open Studios, with free services, assist communities to build and 
operate community-based recording studios.  These are the incubators for 
the music business successes of tomorrow.  Nice, eh?



Keith Tabor wrote:
> cni-copyright (cni-copyright AT cni.org)
>
> The topic was the whining of the studios about losing
> money to peer-to-peer downloads while they are
> simultaneously raking us over the coals for CDs and
> not paying artists under their contracts. (I tried not
> to be too biased, but that is my take ;-)
>
> thanks,
>
> Keith
>
> --- "tompoe AT renonevada.net" <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Keith:  I haven't been following the thread. 
> > Just happened to catch 
> > your inquiry about recording studios.  What list was
> > this?  And, what is 
> > the topic?
> > Thanks,
> > Tom Poe
> > Open Studios
> > Reno, NV
> >
> >
> > Keith Tabor wrote:
> >
> > > This is exactly what I was hoping to hear. Please
> >
> > post
> >
> > > this to the list if you hadn't already.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > > --- "tompoe AT renonevada.net"
> >
> > <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi, Keith:  Here's an approach.  Help spread the
> > > > word.
> > > > http://www.studioforrecording.org/
> > > >
> > > > A year ago, we figured we'd need to help a
> > community
> >
> > > > build a 
> > > > community-based recording studio for upwards of
> > > > $25,000.  Today, less 
> > > > than eight months later, the word filters to us
> > that
> >
> > > > Open Source is 
> > > > breaking through.  Now, most of the equipment has
> > > > been integrated within 
> > > > computers, so a low-cost computer can put out the
> > > > highest quality 
> > > > recordings, matching the most expensive studios
> > > > around.
> > > >
> > > > Any band, or group, or musician, or artist can now
> > > > expect to make high 
> > > > quality recordings with just a quiet room and a
> > > > low-cost computer with 
> > > > Open Source apps.  The quality of what is heard is
> > > > controlled by the 
> > > > quality of the speakers, in large part.  So, it's
> > a
> >
> > > > technical thing, 
> > > > they say, between what is on the CD and what you
> > > > hear over your system.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Tom Poe
> > > > Open Studios
> > > > Reno, NV
> > > >
> > > > Keith Tabor wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > --- Terry Carroll <carroll AT tjc.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Dan Bernitt wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > The CD is sold for somewhere in the 
> > > > > > > neighborhood of $15 when its cost was just a
> > few
> >
> > > > > > cents. 
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Well, the second one cost a few cents.  The
> > first
> >
> > > > > > one probably cost over a
> > > > > > million.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is that really still true, and will it be true in
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > future?
> > > > >
> > > > > I heard recently that home studio equipment is to
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > point where for less than $5000 a band can have a
> > > > > studio that is better equiped than most
> > > >
> > > > professional
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > studios of ten to fifteen years ago.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have bought recordings from "garage bands" all
> > > >
> > > > my
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > life. The quality of these is finally approaching
> > > >
> > > > that
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > of professional recordings and I wonder how much
> > > >
> > > > it
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > costs to put together a good album with unknown
> > > > > artists. 
> > > > >
> > > > > (Obviously, when you include divas and rock stars
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > costs associated with those names and their M&M
> > > > > particularities will have to be dealt with, but
> > > >
> > > > then
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > you have gauranteed sales to some degree.)
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe someone who is actively recording could
> > give
> >
> > > > us
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > some rela numbers to counter my musings.
> > > > >
> > > > > keith
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Terry Carroll        |  "To have this rare
> > > > > > opportunity
> > > > > > Santa Clara, CA      |    is a rare
> > opportunity."
> >
> > > > > > carroll AT tjc.com      |    - Houston Rockets' Yao
> > > > > > Ming, on being named
> > > > > > Modell delendus est  |    starting center for
> > the
> >
> > > > > > 2003 NBA All-Star Game
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