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Full Steam Ahead for the Music Commons
New on the Opsound site: open source audio, i.e. many Opsound artists have offered to provide uncompressed source material for remixing. And Creative Commons has released their new Music Sharing License and the Get Content search engine, which allows you to search for remix-ready, sharable, or downloadable music.
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Creative Commons launched in Australia
The Australian affiliate of Creative Commons, a new international movement to address issues of balance, compromise and moderation over copyright issues will be launched at the University of Melbourne under the auspices of IPRIA next week. Woo-hoo!
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Magnatune blog and Creative Commons comp
John Buckman, who runs Creative Commons’ favourite “online music label” magnatune, now has a blog. I liked the transcription of a cute exchange between Buckman and a major label exec, who apparently doesn’t like being called evil. Speaking of CC, Seb’s Open Research points us to the winning video in the Creative Commons Moving Image…
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Audible magic
ArtMachine on Audible Magic, DRM, the music industry, and economic inequality. Nice work.
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First Monday: Filesharing and Subculture
At First Monday: Digital music and subculture: Sharing files, sharing styles by Sean Ebare. Via hypergene mediablog.
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iTunes ad
Eek! Teenagers who were sued by the RIAA for downloading music appear in a TV advertisement for an iTunes/Pepsi cross-promotion – launched during the Superbowl.
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Common Content
Common Content is “an open catalog of Creative Commons licensed content”. Handy.
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Music and Copyfight
Yesterday I was at QUT for the Digital Music Symposium. Transcription of my scrawled notes follows (does this count as some kind of quasi-live blogging?). Apologies for Bridget Jones-speak in places, as cannot be bothered creating fancy narrative. The room is full of lawyers speaking in loud and rounded tones, hanging their well-suited arms off…
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Open Art Network
The Open Art Network aims to empower artists working in digital formats by devising and promoting standards that encourage an open architecture for the Internet and digital media.
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The Open Video Project
More open content: The Open Video Project. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Clips are searchable by keyword and freely downloadable, or you can view a fastforwarded quicktime version first.…