On 4/11/07, Elizabeth Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd love to coordinate on projects -- one that would be particularly helpful
and not US-specific at all is the free music project located at freemusic.freeculture.org . We're collecting freely licensed music and acting as "curators" of free content for the $100 laptop.
Great stuff! I was having a look at this at the weekend, and there's some really good stuff on there. This track, however, might have to come down - it was a minor UK chart hit in 2001 and is definitely non-free: http://freemusic.freeculture.org/media/files/anonymous/192 I was also thinking it might be good to talk to the guys at last.fm, and see if we could arrange some sort of bulk upload of free music from your database to their service - or even develop some sort of automated system whereby uploading to freemusic automatically sends a song to last.fm. this would be great for both last.fm and the free culture movement in terms of publicity, and would provide great exposure for musicians working with free licences. What do you guys think? I can get in touch with them and see if i can get the ball rolling if everyone's in agreement... Cheers! Tim We're also having our nat'l conference on May 26 and would love to hook you
guys in somehow. In any case, I'll all for transnational collaboration. Elizabeth On 4/11/07, Tim Cowlishaw < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/6/07, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anything in particular that your comrades in the USA could > > help you out with? I'm happy to help. > > Ringo Kamens > > > > Thanks Ringo! > > Well, Public Domain Burn is always in need of people to help out... > especially any Python developers that might be lurking around here... :) > Essentially, we're trying to build a registry of musical works, sound > recordings and composers, and then to programmatically determine which are > in the public domain, in order to digitize them and make them available on > Archive.org. It'd also be really interesting to give this more of an > international slant, IMO - due to the discrepancy between term of copyright > for Sound Recordings between the UK and the US it'd make our system slightly > more complicated, but the confusion borne out of this discrepancy is > precisely the sort of situation we're hoping to alleviate with this project. > It'd also be nice to get hold of works meatadata from the Library of > Congress, somehow... :) > > The project homepage is at http://www.publicdomainworks.net/ > > Aside from that, I think it would generally be good to foster more links > between FC-US and FC-UK - perhaps with a few joint projects (the WIPO world > intellectual property day suggestion that was posted up here earlier in the > week might be a good candidate for this?). I also seem to remember a > suggestion being floated on the iCommons list a while ago concerning the > setting up of some sort of network of contacts for free/CC musicians looking > to tour in other countries who might need assistance with organising gigs / > floors to sleep on, etc. It might be a good idea to see if we could begin > working on something like this - if any US-based Free / CC artists ever want > to come over here, they'd be most welcome! > > Cheers, > > Tim > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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