[livesupport-dev] International Music Library for Radio Stations
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    Reading today through the list of posts, I realized that we have quite
    the eclectic group of people international media entities co-operating
    together on this project. Here in Indiana, USA... there are very few
    radio stations that support and play music by local musicians. This is
    one of the reasons I got involved in this project. I wanted to start a
    radio station that would play music from artists that typically don't
    get any exposure on big commercial radio. I've spent the past year
    trying to collect as much local Indiana (Hoosier) music as possible and
    have an impressive library of about 200 - 300 CDs, and it keeps growing.

    I was wondering if any of you folks are in similar situations. Are the
    musicians in your communities, states, countries, underground =
    unrepresented? I'm sure that in some countries, you guys are battling
    with government controlled media, whereas we battle with corporately
    controlled media here in the USA. I would love to hear stories.

    Then it hit me, we could build an International Music Library for Radio
    Stations, that's composed entirely of underground musicians. At my
    school where I'm starting our radio station, we have a server that could
    easily support a library (300gb+) of music from all over the world. We
    would of course need to program the software, which could be bundled
    with LiveSupport... it looks like LiveSupport aims to do this already.

    It would be a great way to help musicians from our various communities
    get exposure in places that would otherwise never hear them, enabling
    musicians to travel to new places and see the world.

    What do you guys think?

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    Hi Ben,

    The idea to create an archive of local music might dovetail nicely with
    the efforts the Creative Commons people have been working on; they already
    have a search engine for material licensed under the Creative Commons
    license. The trick would be to get the local artists to agree to have
    their work licensed under a CC license first, and then to store it.

    Check out the Creative Commons site for their search engine, which is
    pretty large even at this early stage:
    http://creativecommons.org/audio/

    And if you're not up to date on what the Creative Commons people are doing
    to help reform copyright from the inside out, it's definitely worth
    looking into. The content we're putting out on the LiveSupport Knoppix 1.0
    CD will all be CC-licensed, even if we have to twist Micz Flor's arm a bit
    to get him to release his artists' work under a CC license and not a
    normal copyright (Micz, in addition to being the LS project manager, also
    owns a small record label in Berlin called sue.mi).

    doug

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    Na vinicnich horach 24a/1834, 160 00 Prague 6
    Czech Republic
    Tel: + 420 2 3333 5356, Fax: +420 2 2431 5419
    Mobile: +420 724 073 364
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    Benjamin Racher
    08/19/05 06:34 PM
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    Reading today through the list of posts, I realized that we have quite
    the eclectic group of people international media entities co-operating
    together on this project. Here in Indiana, USA... there are very few
    radio stations that support and play music by local musicians. This is
    one of the reasons I got involved in this project. I wanted to start a
    radio station that would play music from artists that typically don't
    get any exposure on big commercial radio. I've spent the past year
    trying to collect as much local Indiana (Hoosier) music as possible and
    have an impressive library of about 200 - 300 CDs, and it keeps growing.

    I was wondering if any of you folks are in similar situations. Are the
    musicians in your communities, states, countries, underground =
    unrepresented? I'm sure that in some countries, you guys are battling
    with government controlled media, whereas we battle with corporately
    controlled media here in the USA. I would love to hear stories.

    Then it hit me, we could build an International Music Library for Radio
    Stations, that's composed entirely of underground musicians. At my
    school where I'm starting our radio station, we have a server that could
    easily support a library (300gb+) of music from all over the world. We
    would of course need to program the software, which could be bundled
    with LiveSupport... it looks like LiveSupport aims to do this already.

    It would be a great way to help musicians from our various communities
    get exposure in places that would otherwise never hear them, enabling
    musicians to travel to new places and see the world.

    What do you guys think?




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    Hi Ben,



    The idea to create an archive of local music might dovetail nicely with the efforts the Creative Commons people have been working on; they already have a search engine for material licensed under the Creative Commons license. The trick would be to get the local artists to agree to have their work licensed under a CC license first, and then to store it.



    Check out the Creative Commons site for their search engine, which is pretty large even at this early stage:

    http://creativecommons.org/audio/



    And if you're not up to date on what the Creative Commons people are doing to help reform copyright from the inside out, it's definitely worth looking into. The content we're putting out on the LiveSupport Knoppix 1.0 CD will all be CC-licensed, even if we have to twist Micz Flor's arm a bit to get him to release his artists' work under a CC license and not a normal copyright (Micz, in addition to being the LS project manager, also owns a small record label in Berlin called sue.mi).



    doug



    =============================================

    Media Development Loan Fund

    =============================================

    Douglas Arellanes

    Head of Research and Development

    Center for Advanced Media--Prague (CAMP)

    Na vinicnich horach 24a/1834, 160 00  Prague 6

    Czech Republic

    Tel: + 420 2 3333 5356, Fax: +420 2 2431 5419

    Mobile: +420 724 073 364

    http://www.mdlf-camp.net

    http://www.campware.org

    =============================================

    http://www.mdlf.org

    =============================================









    		Benjamin Racher <bracher@iupui.edu>

    08/19/05 06:34 PM

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    Reading today through the list of posts, I realized that we have quite

    the eclectic group of people international media entities co-operating

    together on this project. Here in Indiana, USA... there are very few

    radio stations that support and play music by local musicians. This is

    one of the reasons I got involved in this project. I wanted to start a

    radio station that would play music from artists that typically don't

    get any exposure on big commercial radio. I've spent the past year

    trying to collect as much local Indiana (Hoosier) music as possible and

    have an impressive library of about 200 - 300 CDs, and it keeps growing.



    I was wondering if any of you folks are in similar situations. Are the

    musicians in your communities, states, countries, underground =

    unrepresented? I'm sure that in some countries, you guys are battling

    with government controlled media, whereas we battle with corporately

    controlled media here in the USA. I would love to hear stories.



    Then it hit me, we could build an International Music Library for Radio

    Stations, that's composed entirely of underground musicians. At my

    school where I'm starting our radio station, we have a server that could

    easily support a library (300gb+) of music from all over the world. We

    would of course need to program the software, which could be bundled

    with LiveSupport... it looks like LiveSupport aims to do this already.



    It would be a great way to help musicians from our various communities

    get exposure in places that would otherwise never hear them, enabling

    musicians to travel to new places and see the world.



    What do you guys think?








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