I want to reward artists who release Libre music, I don't really care to reward those who release gratis but non-libre music.
That said, aI think we need to think along the lines of a "Commitment To Freedom" approach: http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/2009/03/commitment-to-freedom.html It is more important to reward artists who are committed to Freedom and producing Libre art than those who are simply using Libre art as a marketing tool, loss leader, or come on. I want to promote those who are making a long term commitment to Libre, either as a hobby or as a life. I don't want to spend my time, which is precious to me, talking up and promoting an artist who has released a few Free Songs but whose intention is to create some buzz and then get a record deal then proceed down the currently traditional path. For those artists who want to devote themselves to their art and are not independently wealthy, it might be worthwhile for more people to brainstorm along the lines that Rob Myers: http://www.robmyers.org/wiki/index.php/How_To_Get_Paid_For_Copyleft_Art and I: http://packet-in.org/wiki/index.php?title=Income have been documenting. all the best, drew On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Ted Smith<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 23:47 -0400, Matt Lee wrote: >> Ted Smith wrote: >> > Unlike the original idea, this seems like a good one -- it would be a >> > nice way to avoid the need for a black/white definition of what >> > constitutes a "free" album or a "free" artist. >> >> No. We really want that black and white definition. >> >> NC or ND music isn't free, and we should reward artists who release free >> music. That's the explicit goal of Libre.fm. > > This comes back to the same question, though: what if an album is > composed of some free tracks, and some non-free tracks? Does that > qualify as free or non free? What if an artist began distributing > non-free music, but later changed to a free model, are they always a > "non-free artist"? > > IMHO, we have the semi-free distinction for software[1], we might as > well extend it to music. Even if we don't, while a song is an atomic > unit, an album isn't, and an artist even less so. Freedom scores seem to > me to be useful there. > > We definitely want to reward artists who release free music. The > question is, how does one qualify? A "freedom score" type thing seems to > fit. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#semi-freeSoftware > > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > > -- http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
