[FSUG-Bangalore] FW: [Ilugc] free music : what happened - whats happening - why itshappening

[Senthil Sundaram (sensunda)]

Hi All,
 
Todays Hindu , Blr , Metroplus carried a article on how music might be
free as in freebies soon..it talked about what happened, whats happening
with music  but not much about "WHY"
 
i thought including "why its happening" and the 'creative commons
movement'  - will give a more interesting picture..
 
http://creativecommons.org/audio - share , reuse , remix - legally !!!
 
 
-S
 
WHAT HAPPENED
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"And the legal battle has raged on long and hard as Napster, the world's
favourite P2P music and MP3 sharing service was outlawed in 2001 after
mainstream artistes like Madonna, Dr. Dre and Metallica filed lawsuits
against Napster."
 
 
WHATS  HAPPENING
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"Apple users can use the already existing iTunes music service to
download free as well as paid content. It won't be long before we can
all get the latest records of our favourite bands the day it's out and
more importantly, legally"
 
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/06/19/stories/2008061951020100.htm
 
WHY ITS HAPPENING
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 there are lots of other things going on in the Net about ownership.
Music and movies and various other forms of culture are being
distributed better by children than by people that are being paid to do
the work. Artists are beginning to discover that if they allow children
to distribute art in a freehanded sort of way, they will do better than
they do in the current slavery in which they are kept by the culture
vultures, who do, it is true, make a good deal of money out of music,
but they do so primarily by keeping ninety-four cents out of every
dollar and rendering six to the musicians, which isn't very good for the
musicians.
 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/moglen-harvard-speech-2004.html
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