Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

[Anatoly Volynets <av AT total-knowledge.com>]

The idea seems to be fruitful. Why don't you move it to the Song Storm? 

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, tom poe wrote:

> I am wondering what you folks think about something like this:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/mt/Tagged_Musicians 
> 
> What I'm searching for, is a rock that musicians can hang their hat on. 
> It's a commitment to using the Internet in all its promise of fame and
> glory, without the RIAA or performance rights organizations.  Total
> rejection of the past, and embracing the new.  The idea is, if we gather
> hundreds of thousands of Tagged Musicians, and they all sign up for
> sites that also list RIAA musicians, wonder what the RIAA will do?
> 
> My thinking is, if this were to be a viable idea, then the next step is
> to find it a home.  We have organizations like eff.org and public
> knowledge.org and archive.org and commoncontent.org and then we have
> organizations that are already trying to create that rock, like
> webcastersalliance.org and indiemusic.org and DJ'sareus.org and then we
> have stations like bNgradio.com and radioaid.com and Lucas' Webjay.com 
> 
> If this "master" list of tagged musicians is maintained properly, it
> provides a means for all organizations/sites that want to "seed" their
> sites/organizations for musicians and artists that provide one or more
> songs to be shared over the Internet.  
> 
> The other way to get to the same point, is to develop a RSS file that
> all sites can use to contribute musicians and artists on their site to a
> search criteria and the musicians and artists can be collected across
> the internet.  If such a "master" list is already capable of being
> assembled, with name, web site, and email address, where is it?
> 
> Hope you can clear up my confusion.
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
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Anatoly Volynets
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