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Is open source music a particularly big phenomenon?

• deleted 16y ago
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  • angusgr 16y ago
    As far as I know, sheet music is usually licensed under traditional copyright and remixing/sampling is usually licensed under fairly complicated closed licensing terms, for the cases where samples & remixes are cleared legitimately. Creative Commons licensing of sheet music & samples would count, but I don't think that's what the parent comment was alluding to - it was a misunderstanding between the concept of "open sourcing" something and the concept of licensing it from the author under more restrictive traditional copyright terms. Wow, this is a lot less snappy when you have to spell it out.
• raquo 16y ago
  Open-source is irrelevant here. It's (1) "I own this copy of music/software and can do anything I wish with it" vs (2) "I licensed this copy of music/software from you on the terms we have agreed on, and I will adhere to these terms". Both music and software are usually licensed (2), but people often disrespect music license thinking they are entitled to more rights for some reason.
• dionysiac 16y ago
  It's getting there. Check out http://ccmixter.org/ http://ccmixter.org/ .