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  • From: Jeff Shippen <jeffshippen AT bluebottle.com>
  • To: Community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [Community_studios] Checking out rumors
  • Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 02:57:48 -0700

"If you're an Independent Artist, and you record a song, then add your voice, and overdub some of the song, then merge it all..."

Ah, kind of like those music files you download from a website, only before you get the hear the music, you hear the artist say something like "M-P-3-Dot-Com" and then the song plays, right? I've always felt good when I loaded those songs into an application, like Audacity, to remove the annoyance hee hee. I actually do like the thought of using this method though. Also, I think that there should be a catalog and/or database of works created through Open Studios projects. I'm sure this would be a lot of work, but I see this putting a greater value into Open Studios at the same time. Open Studios should have a department which, in my mind, is comparable to other record companies. People should be able to browse the website and buy cds or ogg/mp3 downloads of works created through Open Studios, along with 30-90 second sample previews. Once OpenOffice.Org 2.0 is released, we will have a nice data base application available to us. I'm not sure if I am using the term, catalog, correctly - so what I mean by that is to keep a copy of any works created, in any form. What do you all think about catalog and databasing Open Studios works? Is this something that has been considered already?

Jeff

tom poe wrote:

Hi, Jeff: "protected". Interesting term, especially in the Digital
Age.

Generally, here are the steps for "protecting" works on the Internet, to
date, as they relate to our mission to replenish our Public Domain:

First, we encourage folks to just put their ideas, works, whatever, out
there for folks to discover and share. At the same time, they can offer
their works for money, and, as they get a following, they begin to
generate income. That's all well and good, in an ideal world, but
doesn't make much sense to most, today.

So, about two years ago, a group of lawyers from Harvard, Stanford, and
the University of California - Berkeley, got together, and set up a
licensing web site called, Creative Commons Project. Folks can license
their works for the Internet, specifically. They can dedicate the work
they created to the Public Domain, or they can add some restrictions,
and "tag" their works so that the world community knows what they can do
with the work, and, better, if they want to use the work to make money,
it's just a click away to contact the owner, and arrange terms. Additionally, the "tagging" is a good way to identify which works are
available, and which works shouldn't be on the Internet. This makes it
possible for others to monitor and alert the owner when a work pops up
on the Internet that shouldn't be there.

Next, comes the podcasting thing. If you're an Independent Artist, and
you record a song, then add your voice, and overdub some of the song,
then merge it all, create an mp3 file, upload it to the web, create a
RSS file (I think), then iPod users can discover the file, download and
listen to it. So, now it's easy for Independent Artists to create
samples, in a classy way, for iPod users, and not have to provide the
entire song file on the Internet. Another choice in marketing strategy
using the Internet.

Podcasting, in my mind, is a general term, most often associated with
iPods. The fact is, you can use P2P applications that aren't associated
with iPods, and do the same thing. It gets a little confusing.
Tom

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 22:06, Jeff Shippen wrote:

I'm not sure what "protected" means in your context - then again I have no idea what podcasting is either. I guess I'd have to experience and experiment with one of these songs, and try doing whatever I want to do with the song (burn to cd, copy back to computer, play in my portable .ogg player (when i buy one)...

# snippet

podcasting is one way to create a really classy sampler of an artist's
music, and at the same time, by mixing voice and music, protect the song
in the sense that the full version isn't really available, unless it is
purchased. Has anyone come across such discussion about this Internet
strategy?

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