[Dynagroove] Re: higher open source

[Fatima Mojaddidy]

t-bird wrotre:
"if you don't buy house records...the artist goes back to whatever
dreary day job they had... BECAUSE they no longer have a channel
for releasing it...  if nobody knows who they are (because the label
isn't there to promote them anymore) no-one will download it! "

I was just putting forward an open-minded solution to what some are
calling the death of house music. In fact, according to some, copyright
laws are the death of all art and communication. If artists could live
off their art, that's great. But if not, would the art itself die? As
long as there are music lovers, I don't think so. The greatest blues
musicians died poor, but their music carries on.

Check out: http://www.opsound.org/opsound/about.html
"Opsound is an experimental record label.. Opsound explores the
possibilities of developing a gift economy among musicians, borrowing
from the model of the open source software community..."

um, ah, I guess my so-called "bad analogy" is being realized and
implemented by those who dare to break out of the box!

http://www.locarecords.com/nf_index2.html
"LOCA believes that creativity requires that musicians reappropriate and
reinterpret music and sounds to enable them to create truly innovative
music... that the fight over Free/Libre and Open Content and Media is a
struggle over the freedom of expression and the freedom of speech,
radically opening up the possibilities of media... LOCA is attempting to
release music under so-called copyleft, a license that enables music
writers to develop music collaboratively and equitably and then release
it into the public domain... resulting in a radical rejection of the
whole capitalist ethos of these multinational media corporations."

http://www.libresociety.org/
http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/

Did you read the article before writing your comments? If not, here is
the link again: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html

Sincerely, "putting-forward-ideas-even-if-they-sound-stupid" Fatima.