31 Oct
2002
31 Oct
'02
10:49 a.m.
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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