>From: Brian Rowe
>99% of music is NOT under CC, currently silence appears 
>to me to be very accurate. I think that CC is more like 
>a putting a band aid on truncated stump then a long term
>solution when it comes to internet radio.  

I wasn't actually thinking of CC at all.

I was thinking of music that hadn't been placed into the jurisdiction of
collection societies - or that had been wrest back from it.

There would be a silver lining to forcing small-fry Internet radio stations
to choose between going off the air, or webcasting purely royalty-free
music.

Royalty-free music would become far more popular, and the choice of big
label+collection society vs self-publishing would become a little easier.

So, I won't be shedding crocodile tears that ASCAP et al are pricing their
music out of reach of small webcasters. Instead, I'll be hoping Pandora,
Last FM, etc. will see sense and instead provide a 100% royalty free
webcasting service. 

After all, now that they've figured out their listeners' musicial tastes
based on proprietary music, they know what free music to recommend. ;-)

>Thanks for the links to Jamendo.

My pleasure.
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