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Enderrock

Enderrock

Margot Kaminski, January 17th, 2007

Lluís Gendrau is the publisher of the Enderrock Group, a company that specializes in Catalan music and publishes three popular music magazines: Enderrock (pop and rock), Folc (traditional music) and Jaç (jazz). Enderrock – in collaboration with the government of Catalonia – recently included two CDs full of CC-licensed music, Música Lliure and Música Lliure [...]

Ottmar Liebert

Ottmar Liebert

Mia Garlick, November 14th, 2005

Photo © Greg Gorman / Santa Fe  
Ottmar Liebert composes, performs and records music in a Nouveau Flamenco style, which mixes elements of flamenco with jazz, bossa nova, and other genres. Seven of his albums have gone platinum and two other albums gold; he has also been nominated for a Grammy. 
At Ottmar’s and the [...]

Independent Musicians

Independent Musicians

Matt Haughey, October 1st, 2005

 
Scott Andrew LePera founded the lo-fi folk-rock project the Walkingbirds in 1998, around the same time he discovered the Web. Since then he’s actively recorded and released songs in MP3 format directly onto the Web from his little bedroom studio in Northern California. The Walkingbirds’ [...]

Opsound's Sal Randolph

Opsound’s Sal Randolph

Neeru Paharia, October 1st, 2005

 
Meet Sal Randolph, the New York-based artist behind Opsound, a new online record label that has adopted the concepts of open source and copyleft and adapted them to music production. Opsound invites musicians to contribute sounds to a “sound pool” licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. Others can then [...]

Oyez' Jerry Goldman

Oyez’ Jerry Goldman

, October 1st, 2005

 
Jerry Goldman is determined to archive every recorded oral argument and bench statement in the Supreme Court since 1955, when the Court began to tape-record its public proceedings. Goldman, a professor of political science at Northwestern, founded the OYEZ Project in 1989 “to create and share a complete and authoritative archive of Supreme [...]

People Like Us/Vicki Bennett

People Like Us/Vicki Bennett

Derek Slater, October 1st, 2005

 
Collagist People Like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) is most at home exploring fault lines — artistic, emotional, legal. Take “Going Out of My Town,” one of many songs Bennett has made available under a Creative Commons license. It starts with an unsettling assortment of pops and fizzes, then introduces an acoustic guitar sample [...]

Wall Street Journal on the Sampling Licenses

Wall Street Journal on the Sampling Licenses

Mike Linksvayer, October 1st, 2005

by Ethan Smith, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
 
For some people, the future of copyright law is here, and it looks a lot like Gilberto Gil.
The Brazilian singer-songwriter plans to release a groundbreaking CD this winter, which will include three of his biggest hits from the 1970s. It isn’t the content of the disc [...]

DJ Spooky and Roger McGuinn interviews

DJ Spooky and Roger McGuinn interviews

Neeru Paharia, October 1st, 2005

Photo © Iñaki Vinaixa  
Dj Spooky (aka Paul Miller) is a multimedia DJ and Creative Commons advocate who remixes not only music but also film/cinema and fine art. Spooky’s film Rebirth of a Nation intersperses modern images with cuts from D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (now in the public domain) to create [...]

Magnatune

Magnatune

Glenn Otis Brown, October 1st, 2005

 
Magnatune provides “Internet music without the guilt.” Based in Berkeley, California, Magnatune is a record label with a 21st Century business model, offering consumers a unique mix of free and paid music. One of the first for-profit companies to adopt Creative Commons’ copyright licenses into its strategy, Magnatune has amassed both an impressive [...]

Fading Ways

Fading Ways

Neeru Paharia, October 1st, 2005

 
Fading Ways is a Canada & UK indie-label that has international reach. In addition to having national distribution throughout Canada, FW is distributed in several European countries and its UK operation have recently launched an online music store. Fading Ways also utilizes an innovative marketing approach with “street teams” of fans [...]

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Inspired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Legal Guide for Bloggers, the Podcasting Legal Guide is designed to outline both legal and practical issues that are specifically relevant for podcasters, such as using music and video in a podcast.


Legal Music For Remixing
Information on finding and using CC-licensed music for remixing and sampling.

Pump Audio
Pump Audio works with independent musicians to get their music licensed in commercial media projects. You submit your work to Pump, and if they can find someone who wants to use it in their project, Pump will handle the arrangements and pay you 50% of the resulting licensing fees and/or royalties. Pump offers a variety of Creative Commons license options on their site for musicians who want to allow non-commercial use of their work.

Jamendo
Provides an archive of CC-licensed music that's available for download via P2P. Jamendo features tags, user reviews and personalized recommendations, so you can easily find new tunes that suit your tastes.

ccMixter
A music remix site that tracks samples across different artists, all available under sampling licenses so that you too can join in the mix.

Magnatune
A new music label focused on try-before-you-buy music. Features licensed, downloadable tracks from a wide variety of artists that can also be purchased direct from the site

SectionZ
An electronic music community that offers Creative Commons-licensed tracks from genres like IDM, drum 'n' bass, and ambient.

Dmusic
The oldest online digital music community, DMusic offers Creative Commons licenses for artists hosting their music.

Opsound
Features a pool of Creative Commons licensed audio. You may submit your MP3s

OYEZ
Years of Supreme Court proceedings available as licensed MP3, with more to come

SoundClick
Thousands of licensed music files are available here, on this community music hosting service.

Freesound
A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.

Diesel-U-Music
The 2006 edition of this international music contest was open to unsigned artists playing rock, urban/hip-hop, and electronic music. This year's entries are licensed to the public under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license.

 

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