Free Culture Wiki: Piracy Hits a New Low

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Wiki for Free Culture

Wiki for Free Culture 07/12/2004 08:59 AM
Creative Commons is experimenting with using a wiki to discuss using a wiki to maintain a Wikipedia of sorts for Free Culture. Drop by and give us your thoughts....

The LinuxQuestions.org Linux Wiki Hits
Two Thousand Articles

The LinuxQuestions.org Linux Wiki Hits
Two Thousand Articles 09/09/2004 03:22 AM
The LinuxQuestions.org Linux Wiki Hits 2000 Articles. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Free Culture

Free Culture 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

Free Culture!

Free Culture! 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

I helped put together the new Creative Commons CD featuring all sorts of great licensed music, and it's all available for download.

Now that the pool of CC-licensed music has grown, we had a great deal of choices and as a result there are all sorts of songs in the mix. I've been listening to these songs for months and it's hard to pick favorites, they've all got some strengths. Don't miss the bonus remixes too, the creativity there was amazing.

Piracy hits Hollywood in the wallet

Piracy hits Hollywood in the wallet 01/04/2005 01:32 PM
Entertainment industry sees illegal downloads siphoning off revenue, says In-Stat/MDR. And then there's the threat from Apple.

Free Culture in 100 words

Free Culture in 100 words 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Since no one has the time to read books anymore, I used the text version of Lessig's new book, Free Culture, and Word's AutoSummary feature (like I did with the Matrix thread) to produce a ~100 word summary of the 368 page book: FREE CULTURE"PROPERTY"The copyright warriors are right: A copyright is a kind of property. First, about copyright. That copyright is their property. America copied English copyright law. Actually,...

The Free Culture debate

The Free Culture debate 02/11/2004 09:39 AM
James DeLong responds to my post about the Free Culture Movement (FCM) and property rights.  He steps back from his earlier statements and acknowledges that, yes, there are elements of the movement, such as Creative Commons, that work within the property rights system.  For that I give him credit. 

I don't agree with his stark division of the FCM into "BSD Licence" activities that respect property rights and "GPL" activities that seek to overthrow them, but I won't be ungrateful.  It's a much more nuanced and accurate view that what he started with.  If we can spend our energy debating the substance of the issues -- which sets of rules better promote economic efficiency, freedom, and innovation -- we may make some progress.

To my mind, the genius of people like Larry Lessig and Yochai Benkler is that, unlike the prior "copyleft" generation represented by GPL creator Richard Stallman, they are able to engage on their opponents' own turf as well as from the outside.  What set me off about DeLong's original post was the unwillingness to accept that fact, by labeling the whole movement as opposed to property rights.

DeLong takes umbrage at my use of the term "copyright maximalists."  First of all, I didn't apply that label to him -- I was thinking more of Jack Valenti. As DeLong makes clear in his followup post, he appreciates that property rights have limits:


Unfortunately, many of the business and political interests in the digital content debates fail to acknowledge this point.  The movie industry, for example, has voiciferously promoted its conception of its intellectual property rights as morally sacrosanct, now and forever.  One key rhetorical move they make in doing so is to label anyone who questions their viewpoint as a communist and/or a pirate.  (I'm not sure which is the greater insult.)  You either support the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act... or you're in the dustbin of history with Lenin and Trotsky.  In a political battle, demonizing the opposition can be very effective. 

I'm sure this wasn't what motivated DeLong's original post.  But to a reader, his sweeping generalization had that ring. 

De Long succinctly (if inadvertantly) shows the core problem:


I see a similar problem on the other side: property rights defenders reflexively attacking alternative production models and technology-necessitated limitations on rights.  Does that describe all opponents of the FCM?  Of course not.  But the thoughtful ones such as DeLong are letting themselves become intellectual cover for the extremists.

That's why this meta-debate matters.  In the confines of the academy, we all trust each other's intellectual honesty and can have a nice conversation.  DeLong points to Polk Wagner, who has done excellent work attacking the point of view that I support.  I see Polk once a month at a Philly-area gathering of cyberlaw afficionados.  We find common ground on some substantive points and disagree on others, but I always respect his perspective.  In my forthcoming spectrum paper, I engage with other brilliant scholars like Howard Shelanski and Stuart Benjamin who have written in the area.  That's the nature of intellectual debate -- different sides advance claims and challenge one another. 

The cold reality is that the Free Culture battle isn't just being fought in the halls of academe.  The scholarly discussion is part of a larger debate taking place in Congress, the courts, corporate board rooms, and the realm of public opinion.  We simply can't ignore the consequences of labeling opponents with too broad brush. 

A Wikipedia of Free Culture?

A Wikipedia of Free Culture? 07/02/2004 03:32 AM

Q: How to plan a wiki?
A: Hash out ideas on a wiki.

So we set up a wiki and we're holding a barn raising there. You're invited.

Our objective is to plan a "Get Content" wiki, a scalable catalog of "some rights reserved" and "no rights reserved" works.

A truly international catalog of CC and PD works. A Wikipedia of Free Culture, democratically maintained and curated.

Can this work? We have a hunch that it can, but we've doubtless missed many solutions and innumerable problems.

What we have thought of is of course on the wiki, where you should go without further adieu and add your ideas.

Note for anyone excited about the idea: we're planning at this stage. The wiki we're using for the planning may not be the one we use to implement the "Get Content" wiki (do help us figure that one out) -- so you may wish to curb your enthusiasm for raw cataloging just right now.

Now dive in!

Free Culture at ILAW

Free Culture at ILAW 05/14/2004 03:12 PM

Chairman and co-founder of Creative Commons, Larry Lessig, spent most of this week speaking at the ILAW conference at Harvard. There are some great notes and transcripts on Furdlog and Copyfight of Lessig's "Free Culture" talk. There are a lot of great questions from the moderator and audience, and a lot of great ideas being debated.

Free Culture spoken

Free Culture spoken 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
This has amazed even me. AKMA asked whether a free audio version of Free Culture can be built. Joi seconded the idea, and one day later, ten chapters are claimed. Doug Kaye of ITConversations has already recorded chapter one -- Creators. Noncommercial derivative works, and maybe even a competition in versions (I want to record a chapter!). Very cool.

Free Culture live

Free Culture live 09/10/2004 04:26 PM

Colin Mutchler, featured in our second Creative Commons movie "Reticulum Rex", is giving a live performance of his audio/visual work called "Free Culture" September 15th in Brooklyn, NY.

"Sourced by Larry Lessig and his new book of the same name, Free Culture is multimedia performance by Brooklyn based artist Colin Mutchler that mixes music, image, video and spoken word to speak his personal journey, both physically and digitally, through the last four years. "

Free Culture On Tour

Free Culture On Tour 03/19/2005 03:27 AM

Free Culture may be visiting a college, youth media group, or festival near you. Brooklyn-based artist Colin Mutchler, in partnership with FreeCulture.org, has launched a five-week tour which kicked off last week at South by Southwest.

The Free Culture show mixes music, images, and spoken word to demonstrate the complex and entertaining cross section between cultural property and freedom. Check it out!

Free Culture formats

Free Culture formats 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
The free Free Culture was released as a pdf under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. Some complained about the format. Others, relying upon the freedom granted, created derivative works in other formats. So far, 36 hours after the book was released, I know of 9 versions available, including: MS-re ader, Rocke t e-Book, zippe d, iSilo , Mobip ocket, EasyR ead, PostScri pt, Pl ain Text, html. Most of these are from Blackmask, but thanks to Firas, Mike and Josh as well.

Free Culture reviews

Free Culture reviews 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
Reviews for Free Culture are here, with comment space and an RSS feed too.

Free Culture class

Free Culture class 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
Lawrence Solum (who has entered an elite status after Vint Cerf gave a paper praising his Layer s Principle paper) is running a blog-class this week on Free Culture. Follow along (as I will be) and learn.

Something for Nothing: The Free Culture
AudioBook Project

Something for Nothing: The Free Culture
AudioBook Project 05/25/2004 02:43 PM

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Free Culture Phase 2 Conference

Free Culture Phase 2 Conference 06/17/2005 05:02 PM

A little late on the blogging (due to travel), but still worth reporting on:

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend the Free Culture Phase 2 conference. The conference was organized by Malkia Lydia and Colin Mutchler (father of Creative Commons' theme song My Life and Free Culture Tour), and sponsored by American University. It brought together a small number of diverse younger and older activists, including Freeculture.org, Downhill Battle, Listen Up, Third World Majority, Eyebeam, and many more. The diverse group struggled to understand what free culture truly means in the context of global economics, access to technology, and traditional knowledge. The group also shared ideas, art, and experiences using new media as a tool for social justice. Though it wasn't clearly defined what Phase 2 might be, it was understood to me that the root of what everyone was doing came from a common passion for citizen self-determination and empowerment.

Free Culture and Property Rights

Free Culture and Property Rights 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
Over at the Progress and Freedom Foundation blog, James DeLong attempts to prove that the "Free Culture Movement" (FCM) led by people like Larry Lessig is part and parcel of the political left:

This is a nice case of simply asserting what the author is allegedly attempting to prove.  In fact, Free Culture is eminently consistent with markets and property rights.  Lessig's Creative Commons and successful open source projects are based on well-defined software licenses.  In other words, property rights that function in a market.  The network infrastructure piece of Free Culture, open spectrum is expressly built on the idea of a market in wireless devices replacing a system of government spectrum micro-management.  And it was the Framers of the US Constitution, hardly anti-property radicals, who decreed that copyrights be for a limited period of time. 

The property rights maximalists are the true radicals here.  They have defined any challenges to the status quo as a frontal attack on property rights.  As political propaganda, this effort may have some success.  But the ultimate strength of the Free Culture Movement, or whatever one calls it, lies in this: It is an internal critique of the dominant ideology, not an external challenge to markets like communism. 

The Free Culture proponents, who offer suggestions like returning to the copyright terms of the 1790s, are the true conservatives in this debate.

Woody Guthrie free culture

Woody Guthrie free culture 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

Joel Blain recently wrote in with an interesting observation:

"I've been reading a bio on Woody Guthrie. It's pretty interesting. The book reprints one of the "Copyright Warnings" he included on his recordings in the ealry 40's

"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."

It just made me think of Creative Commons. I dunno if you've seen or heard it before, but I thought I'd pass it along."

Nice find, thanks Joel!

Help make a Wikipedia of Free Culture

Help make a Wikipedia of Free Culture 07/09/2004 05:19 AM
Creative Commons is creating a "Wikipedia of Free Culture" with links and annotation for every bit of open-licensed material in the universe. You're invited to help. Link

free culture source material

free culture source material 06/12/2004 04:34 AM
TheBots have released an archive of George Bush Audio.

Software Piracy Rate Climbs, Hits $29
Bln Globally

Software Piracy Rate Climbs, Hits $29
Bln Globally 07/07/2004 06:32 AM
Boston Globe Jul 7 2004 10:54AM GMT

Lessig's Free Culture Chinese fan-trans

Lessig's Free Culture Chinese fan-trans 04/10/2004 03:46 AM
Kevin sez, "Some Chinese bloggers have recently launed a collabrative transaltion project to translate Lessig's Free Culture into Chinese, Create a Wiki page in SocialBrain. So far, 21 people have joined this collaborative project, memes appeared in lots of blogs. 12 chapters were assigned by contributors to translate." Link (Thanks, Kevin!)

Freely downloadable Free Culture going
into third printing

Freely downloadable Free Culture going
into third printing 07/27/2004 05:50 PM

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Lessig's free book still racking in the sales

Stanford Magazine carries a story this month about our chairman and co-founder Lawrence Lessig's book which has just entered its third printing. This is interesting because the book is freely available online for download (under a Creative Commons license), and has been downloaded about 180,000 times. On the one hand an author can give away free content for folks to remake into audio books, translations, and other formats, and the author still gets paid through traditional book sales. Amazing how that works, and works so well sometimes. [via Copyfight]

It will be very difficult to "prove" that the Creative Common license and the freely downloadable aspect of Free Culture improved sales, but the book is selling and making it freely available has clearly not STOPPED sales. I wonder if it is possible to show that making books available for free electronically increases the sale of real books? I wonder if there are particular genres where this holds more true...

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Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free
Culture"

Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free
Culture" 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free Culture"
http://www.turnstyle.org/ FreeCulture/

On Thursday, March 25, 2004; Lawrence Lessig's new book "Free Culture" was released to the world as a printed hardcover as well as a free download, under a Creative Commons license. On Friday, A. K. M. Adam asked a simple question: "Anyone feel like recording a chapter of Lawrence Lessig's new book?" By Saturday, contributions were coming in from around the world. Inspired by Eric Rice, Scott Matthews whipped up this site with his MP3 juke/server software, Andromeda.

An extremely beautiful Free Culture
eBook

An extremely beautiful Free Culture
eBook 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
There is an extremely beautiful ebook version of Free Culture here. I continue to be astonished at the creativity free culture (the idea, not the book) inspires.

Software Piracy Rate Climbs, Hits
$29 Bln Globally (Reuters)

Software Piracy Rate Climbs, Hits
$29 Bln Globally (Reuters) 07/07/2004 01:32 AM
Reuters - The global trade in pirated software, from knock-off versions of Microsoft Windows XP to Adobe Acrobat, hit nearly $29 billion in 2003, an industry trade body said in its annual survey on Wednesday.

AnarchistU, Toronto's wiki-based free
school

AnarchistU, Toronto's wiki-based free
school 09/09/2004 02:43 PM
Cory Doctorow: My old highschool roommate, Erik "Possum Man" Stewart, has started a free school in Toronto callled AnarchistU, in which anyone can propose a class, organize its curriculum on a wiki, sign up enough students and start teaching. Each semester has seen substantial growth in enrollment, and the model of peer education is really working well for a surprising number of people.

What is Anarchist U?
The Anarchist U is a volunteer-run collective which organizes a variety of courses on arts and sciences. Most courses run for ten weeks, and meet once a week; there are no admission fees. The Anarchist U follows the tradition of free schools in that it is open, non-hierarchic and questions the roles of teachers and students.

Where is Anarchist U located?
Anarchist U is in Toronto ON, Canada. There is no single street address; rather different classes and meetings take place in different community centres and homes throughout the city.

Do you offer online courses?
No. All courses are run non-virtually, classroom style.

What's an anarchist school? Good question, we're also trying to figure that out!

Link

Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates =
Commies

Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates =
Commies 01/06/2005 12:07 AM
Xeni Jardin: I imagine my blog-mate Cory might have a few things to say about this when he's online again. :-) In an interview on news.com, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described free culture advocates as a "modern-day sort of communists." Well now.

Q: "In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, 'We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights.' What's driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?

A: "No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

And this debate will always be there. I'd be the first to say that the patent system can always be tuned--including the U.S. patent system. There are some goals to cap some reform elements. But the idea that the United States has led in creating companies, creating jobs, because we've had the best intellectual-property system--there's no doubt about that in my mind, and when people say they want to be the most competitive economy, they've got to have the incentive system. Intellectual property is the incentive system for the products of the future."

Link (Thanks, Rick Prelinger, and Nathan Slaughter).

BB reader Matt Bradley said, "Obviously, what we need is a large red flag with a gold copyleft in the upper left, replacing the hammer and sickle."

That sounded like a fine idea, so I whipped up the icon you see here. Enjoy, comrades!

Debates about global issues, politics
and culture set "CC-free"

Debates about global issues, politics
and culture set "CC-free" 06/17/2005 05:02 PM

In recent news - openDemocracy.net has announced that it is releasing around 150 of its existing articles under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and will also be incorporating the option of Creative Commons licensing for all future contributors.

openDemocracy is an online magazine that provides a forum in which global issues relating to politics and culture are debated, many of which do not receive sufficient or sufficiently careful attention by the mainstream media. A brief review of openDemocracy's au thor pages shows that recent authors have included Kofi Annan, Timothy Garton Ash, Janis Ian, Iris Marion Young, Salman Rushdie, George Soros, Richard Stallman and Gillian Slovo.

It is great to have such a high caliber publication committed to the principles of spreading ideas around the globe and adopting a Creative Commons to fulfill that objective. You can read more about their decision to switch and why Salman Rushdie said no to a Creative Commons license in our recent Featured Commoner segment.

Del audiobook de "Free Culture" al
audiolibro de "Cultura Libre"

Del audiobook de "Free Culture" al
audiolibro de "Cultura Libre" 09/01/2004 05:45 PM

Happy Birthday, Free Culture Movement
(finally)

Happy Birthday, Free Culture Movement
(finally) 06/22/2005 02:31 AM
So as reported about two months ago, the Free Culture Movement turned one in April. I promised a present. At the time, we were organizing a call in recording of "Happy Birthday," from some of the leaders of the free world. Well, finally, after some struggle clearing rights, and after lots of nitpicking on my part, we've released the song. Check out the @page at Creative Commons, donate something in support, and download the song. Sorry for the delay.

Video of Lessig Free Culture speech in
Helsinki

Video of Lessig Free Culture speech in
Helsinki 07/27/2004 02:35 PM

There a small, but well produced mp4 video of Lessig's speech about Free Culture and the Creative Commons that he gave when he was in Helsinki this May.

Thanks to Jyri at Aula for the link and for organizing the event.

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UMaine launches free
culture/code/knowledge service

UMaine launches free
culture/code/knowledge service 12/16/2003 11:12 AM
The University of Maine has launched "Still Water," a copyright-free zone for posting and sharing images, music, videos, programming code and texts.

"We are training revolutionaries -- not by indoctrinating them with dogma but by exposing them to a process in which sharing culture rather than hoarding it is the norm," said Joline Blais, a professor of new media at the University of Maine and Still Water co-director.

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Bill Gates calls free culture advocates
communists

Bill Gates calls free culture advocates
communists 01/07/2005 12:01 AM

Xeni @ Boing Boing

Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies

In an interview on news.com, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described free culture advocates as a "modern-day sort of communists." Well now.

Q: "In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, 'We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights.' What's driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?

A: "No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

Lessig Blog

what a total (intellectual) disappointment this man is

If I had the time, and the money, I'd do the deep analysis that it would take to explain to myself why it is I constantly hope to be surprised by Mr. Gates. Yet I never am.

It's one thing to read this sort of thing from a studio exec, or head of a record label -- surrounded as they are by the sort that surround them. But the people I've met at Microsoft are miles beyond this sort of silliness. Does Mr. Gates not even talk to them?

More Gates "Creative Commies" propaganda on Boing Boing.

I'd be interested to know why Larry expected to be positively surprised by Mr. Gates.

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Free Culture and the Future of Music,
Part 1: Ad Hominem, Ad Nauseum

Free Culture and the Future of Music,
Part 1: Ad Hominem, Ad Nauseum 05/04/2004 09:12 PM
How influential is the Free Culture Movement and the book that gives it its name? One way to judge is by measuring the ferocity of the opposition. Those who have pushed for copyright maximization over the past decade or so have been able to do so unfettered by inconveniences like...

eBay confuses free software and piracy

eBay confuses free software and piracy 12/15/2003 10:25 AM
I give eBay credit for trying to do the right thing. In 1999, James Love documented on the Consumer Project for Technology mailing list how Microsoft was forcing eBay to remove items from auction if they bore the Microsoft name. According to Microsoft, consumers have no right to sell Microsoft software that they have legally purchased. eBay responded by pulling all auctions for Windows and warning those who had tried to sell it of the legal consequences of software piracy. But this is different. They are pulling auctions for free software. It's because of their "piracy policy." At least that's what they're telling Russ Phillips.

MidEast software heading for 70 percent
piracy-free: watchdog (AFP)

MidEast software heading for 70 percent
piracy-free: watchdog (AFP) 04/25/2004 09:39 AM
AFP - The Middle East is closing in on a target of being 70 percent software piracy-free in the next five years, an industry watchdog said in a statement to mark World Intellectual Property Rights Day.

Boing Boing: Bill Gates: Free Culture
advocates = Commies

Boing Boing: Bill Gates: Free Culture
advocates = Commies 01/06/2005 02:39 PM
yesterday's Boing Boing post .. posts more of Gates' quote, .. BoingBoing link

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Grok Description matches for Free Culture Wiki: Piracy Hits a New Low
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Will El Nino come again this year?

Will El Nino come again this year? 08/08/2004 01:42 AM
Content.sina.com - Sat Aug 7, 08:56 am GMT

Pacific May Be Seeing New El Nino

Pacific May Be Seeing New El Nino 08/06/2004 12:53 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Aug 5, 09:25 pm GMT

NINO Is Not Openview

NINO Is Not Openview 03/20/2003 09:37 AM
NINO 3.11 new windows release

El Niño is coming

El Niño is coming 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
El Niño is Spanish. Like all things spanish, it is dangerous.

El Nino 'could strike this year'

El Nino 'could strike this year' 08/06/2004 11:39 AM
An El Nino event may be on its way this year, according to the US government's climate prediction centre.

Free After Rebate - The best things in
life are free, after sixto eight weeks

Free After Rebate - The best things in
life are free, after sixto eight weeks 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
This website lists stuff that ends up costing you nothing except the (sometimes costly) shipping charges. What a great idea.Link (via GlennLog)

The Best Things in Life Are Free

The Best Things in Life Are Free 06/21/2004 06:13 AM

Capture/RIP Music Streams for Easy,
Free, Legal, and Tagged Music/MP3 Files

Capture/RIP Music Streams for Easy,
Free, Legal, and Tagged Music/MP3 Files 03/28/2005 12:56 PM
Tech-Recipes Mar 28 2005 5:12PM GMT

It surrounds us. It binds all things.
It flows through us. It gives us
life... Free Food. There. Can you
smell it?

It surrounds us. It binds all things.
It flows through us. It gives us
life... Free Food. There. Can you
smell it? 04/09/2005 06:22 PM
Will Mike Slackenerny ever graduate? It looks like long-time readers of PhD -- a comic strip about graduat e student s -- will have to buy the book to find out. Some people aren't taking the news so well.

“Royalty Free Music” Internet Radio
Announced by CSS Music

“Royalty Free Music” Internet Radio
Announced by CSS Music 03/30/2005 03:29 AM
CSS Music, a leading provider of royalty free music for use in film, television, and corporate and multimedia applications, has introduced an Internet radio station that plays original, instrumental, and royalty free music. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Two Part Essay on Software Piracy

Two Part Essay on Software Piracy 01/06/2004 04:25 AM
I have been a firm believer in purchasing software that I like. I really like the shareware concept and support...

Music.Download.com Free Music is a
Winner!

Music.Download.com Free Music is a
Winner! 04/27/2004 06:56 PM
I have downloaded about a 100 tracks from Music.Download.com music section this afternoon. It is nice to be able to...

More free music.

More free music. 09/20/2004 12:55 AM
If you don't know much about contemporary music, there's some good edumacating here: Cuff the Duke, Dirtbombs, Interpol, LIARS, Manitoba, Spiritualized, Stars, Ween, Amon Tobin, Decemberists, Controller.Controller, Heavy Blinkers, Peaches, Gentleman Reg, Calexico, Ted Leo, D.O.A., Blonde Redhead, The Constantines, Hayden, The Notwist, C'Mon, Sea & Cake, A&C, Do Make Say Think, Royal City, Oh Susanna, Death From Above 1979, White Stripes, Tobin Sprout, TV On the Radio, Add n To (X)... some of the stellar bands with streams at CBC Radio's Just Concerts: Live and Studio recordings. {All the recordings I tried were top-notch quality. Unfortch, the streams are Real, but definitely still worth checking out.}

Free Music

Free Music 12/02/2003 12:37 AM
While legal downloads are selling well, Internet music merchants are not making money. By Eugene Wee (Straits Times via MyAppleMenu)

Rent Music? Why Not Buy? Or Better
Still... Get Free Music

Rent Music? Why Not Buy? Or Better
Still... Get Free Music 02/05/2005 09:39 PM

I believe Steve Jobs was right, when he assessed music rental via the Internet will not make business sense, but not because of the reason he cited. (If I recall correctly, he claimed that "consumers" will rather buy, than rent, tunes.)

We do want to hear new music. That's one reason why radio was popular. But music rental faces extremely tough competitioin: from both radio -- which is still mainly free, and podcasts such as PodSafe Music and (ahem) MyAppleMenu Shuffle provides daily free music too.

Free music at Columbia Music Lab

Free music at Columbia Music Lab 04/08/2005 03:00 PM
A Columbia University experiment lets you "find new music, help support emerging artists and help out science -- all at the same time."

Playlist: Set Your Music Free

Playlist: Set Your Music Free 03/14/2005 04:37 PM
Are you constantly tethered to the headphone jack of your computer or iPod--even when you're home alone? You clearly need a good set of speakers. Whether you're lounging around the house or relaxing at the beach, we'll help you cut the headphone cord and find a set that can do your tunes justice. We've provided recommended systems at a number of different price points, so you're sure to find something appropriate for your tastes and budget. (You can find longer reviews of many of these systems in our Product Guide.)

Legal Free Music On The Way

Legal Free Music On The Way 12/22/2003 04:08 PM
Whether they understand the economics of it or not, it appears that things are continuing to move forward pretty much as we expected in the music business. Companies are realizing that music is a promotional good, and not necessarily something that should be sold on its own. With that in mind, many big brand companies are looking to give away lots of legal free music in the coming year. Of course, the recording industry still hasn't figured this out completely, and will still stick to its guns and charge $0.67/track - which will be paid for by the big brands giving away the music. Sooner or later, though, pricing pressure should show up enough to force the industry to lower their own prices as well, no matter how much they complain.

Free music at LegalTorrents

Free music at LegalTorrents 01/07/2004 02:48 PM

LegalTorrents is a new site offering 5Gb of electronic music from a variety of labels, all licensed under Creative Commons. What makes this site unique is the large downloads are shared among everyone downloading, thanks to the P2P technology of BitTorrent< /a>. Once you download a client and load up a music torrent file, you'll be downloading the file from everyone that has downloaded the file, and as you gather data others will be downloading from you. It's an incredible technology meant to share large file downloads like these music archives and things such as linux distributions. The technology also has a checkered past due to its use for sharing illegal files, hence the name of the site, LegalTorrents.

Free music. (It's late. I can't think of
a title.)

Free music. (It's late. I can't think of
a title.) 08/09/2004 12:35 AM
KVRX, University of Texas' radio station, has an archive of tracks recorded live in their studio. Artists include The Magnetic Fields, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Broken Social Scene, Devendra Banhart, Explosion s in the Sky, Sebadoh, Mojave 3, Okkervil River, Japancake s, Call and Response, Super Furry Animals, Cat Power, I Am The World Trade Center and the sublime Paul Burch, among others.

Other News: Free Music Downloads

Other News: Free Music Downloads 04/26/2004 10:22 AM
Cnet launches a new, free music-download site.

Free Music and Video's for AOL customers

Free Music and Video's for AOL customers 06/17/2005 03:50 PM

Do I smell desperation is AOL so desperate to retain customers that they are now going to give away all the music and video's it's customers can consume..

Lets think about it this way I subscribe to AOL and I tear up all kinds of bandwidth downloading music and videos 24/7 do they really think they can make money on this or is this just a gamble to get kids to beg their parents to give them AOL so they can get all you can eat music.

Last time I checked their were some great music services free and pay that you can do pretty much the same thing. [Yahoo]

Free Games and Music from 3D Realms

Free Games and Music from 3D Realms 06/03/2004 12:37 AM
ZDNet Jun 3 2004 4:44AM GMT

Free Writing and Music - as in Speech

Free Writing and Music - as in Speech 01/11/2004 02:42 AM
I'd like you all to take a moment to browse the Common Content catalog. It is a categorized index of work which has one of the several Creative Commons licenses. Free licenses aren't just for software anymore. The top-level categories in the index are images, movies, audio, text and web sites. I'm taking the trouble to recommend Common Content just now because I don't think either the catalog or the Creative Commons licenses are as well known as they deserve to be.

Virus-free, spam-free, secure email a
step closer

Virus-free, spam-free, secure email a
step closer 09/27/2004 10:38 AM
Holy Grail spotted in Leeds...

Get 13 free songs from iTunes Music
Store

Get 13 free songs from iTunes Music
Store 01/05/2005 10:01 PM
Apple has a promotion in which new iPod owners receive an iTunes Music Sampler with 13 free songs from iTunes Music Store. If you already own an iPod, you can also get the same free music.

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Using Google To Find Free Music
Downloads

Using Google To Find Free Music
Downloads 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
Search Engine Journal Apr 6 2005 3:35PM GMT

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