DMusic, the oldest independent digital online music community now supports Creative Commons in their upload process. More importantly though, DMusic is providing the first web-based application to embed Creative Commons license information into ID3 tags of MP3 files. Now, when you upload your MP3 file to DMusic and choose a Creative Commons license, DMusic will…

Apple just announced they sold 3.3 million songs in 7 days on the iTunes Music Store. To put this in perspective, the entire top ten of the Billboard music chart is tracking just over 2 million units. If anyone in the music industry doubted that people would ever want to pay for music online, Apple’s…

Oldest independent digital music community and Silicon Valley nonprofit announce new copyright option for musicians Palo Alto, CA and Jenkintown, PA, USA – DMusic, the first and oldest independent digital music community, announced today that it will offer Creative Commons licenses as an option to all DMusic contributing musicians. The licenses, provided by the nonprofit…

The Pew Internet Project released a report today, which surveyed musicians and internet users. While the downloading habits portion of the results were covered in the NY Times today, the most compelling statistic from the artist report was this: 83% [of musicians] have provided free samples of their work online and significant numbers say free…

AGNULA Music Libre, a new database of libre music (which includes music licensed under the CC Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike licenses), launched last month. The site has adopted CC’s license embedding strategy, publishing RDF backing license claims made in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

Opsound has a great Flash-based Internet radio application, highlighting an hours worth of Opsound music. Lots of mellow electronica, and low-fi tracks — a very soothing collection of tunes, all offered under Attribution-ShareAlike licenses.

We’re hosting a very short notice music metadata summit tomorrow 3-6PM (Pacific) on the Stanford campus and online (IRC). We hope to come to decisions on several concrete issues, including metadata for tipjars, license buyouts, purchasing, and “remix ready” content as well as discuss how various music metadata-related projects can better collaborate and encourage adoption…

Webjay is a cool little hack. You toss in a URL, and it scans pages for mp3 files, making iTunes/winamp/realplayer playlists on the fly. As an example, Common Content’s audio page as a MP3 playlist looks something like this.

The Silicon Valley nonprofit announces new file-sharing-friendly music license alongside its new Get Content search engine. Austin, Texas, USA – March 18, 2004 – Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding the range of creative works free to share and build upon, announced its new Music Sharing License and Get Content search engine at the…

My french isn’t too good, but I’m going to guess that Autres Directions in Music is a new internet music label based in France releasing their songs under Creative Commons licenses. So far their releases consist of these four albums: (1, 2, 3, 4) all ready for download as MP3s or you can drop them…