Free music
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Free music can also mean free improvisation: improvised music without any rules, and not in any particular style.
Free music, like free software, is music that can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. It does not mean that there should be no fee involved. The word free refers to freedom, not to price.
Some free music is licensed under licenses that are intended for software (like the GPL) or other written media (the GFDL). But there are also licenses especially for music and other works of art, such as EFF's Open Audio License, the Ethymonics free music license ([1] (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/tonyhb/)), LinuxTag's OpenMusic License ([2] (http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/showitem.php?item=216)), the Free Art license and the Creative Commons Licences.
Some record labels distributing free music:
See also: copyleft Taper-friendly bands
External links
- Information
- The Free Music Philosophy (http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp.html)
- Free music (http://en.wiki.oekonux.org.uk/free_music) article in the Oekonux wiki
- The Netlabel Catalogue (http://www.phlow.net/netlabel_catalogue/)
- Collections
- The Internet Archive: Live Music Archive (http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php)
- Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/) (still in French, soon in English)
- Opsound (http://www.opsound.org/)
- Free Classical music on MIT (http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/)
- GNUArt.net (http://www.gnuart.net/) (in French)
- artlibre.org (French)
- Tokyo Dawn Netlabel (Rap+Disco) (http://www.tokyodawnrecords.com/)
- Open Music Registry (http://www.openmusicregistry.org/)
- CAFE Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (EFF) (http://www.eff.org/cafe/)
- Free Superhits (http://www.superhits.ch) (in German)
- Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org)
- Scene.org The Scene's Hub (http://www.scene.org)
- Irate Radio (http://irate.sourceforge.net)
- Agnula Libre Music (http://muzik.agnula.org/)
- Databases
- Music city, a collaborative music db (http://www.music-city.org/)
- Bands, artists
- Twisted Helices (http://www.ram.org/th/)
- Red Martian (http://www.redmartian.com)
- iriXx (http://www.madgelloland.org/irixx/)
- UNIT-E (http://unit-e.sharph.net/)
- IndusTree (http://www.industree.org/)de:Freie Musik