[linux-audio-user] (REQ:) Linux live encoding

[Patrick Shirkey]

m wrote:

> please do keep us informed of how things turn out - i would be
> particularly interested as i'm planning, together with Jack Woehr and
> others, to start a Free Music foundation along similiar lines to the
> FSF, but promoting copyleft licensing in music... there are many people
> working on Open and Free licenses for music, but so far no umbrella
> organisation to keep everyone in touch - my feeling, as i work on my
> book 'copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom' (see
> www.copyleftmedia.org.uk) is that we need a whole new Free
> infrastructure if we are going to succeed in our goal - not just
> composers releasing Free music but webcasters, producers, record
> companies.... and of course software developers :)
> 

This is an interesting concept. But after thinking about it for a few 
days I wonder how easy it would be to get the numerous organisations 
that represent open multimedia to get on board? It seems that it is a 
ver difficult task to get them all motivated. I would guess there would 
be more liklihood of getting one of the larger organisations to take on 
the role and use their leverage to get others involved.

In other words I think there may more more chance to get it done from 
the inside than starting YAOMF (Yet another open music foundation).

What are your ideas on this?


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