-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Kris, I use and write mostly Free software (FS) (free as in libre, not necessarily as in beer). Richard Stallman has a new book out actually, a collection of essays. I flipped through some of the manuscripts before it was published (my friend was the editor) but I haven't read a final copy yet. Its mostly about software of course, but the book is not intended for programmers per-se. I think a German group has extended the GPL idea to cover music and things like that but can't find the link. Here is an interesting one though: Copyright for Collage Artists (http://www.funnystrange.com/copyright/index.html). There are also some good copyright-sample-collage-appropriation-etc resources over at detritus.net. If you're thinking about extending the GPL into areas of music and art, maybe the Free Documentation License, a GPL variant for text, might be a good place to start. I'll see if I can find more previous work on this as well. On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 08:57 AM, nibiru wrote:
Giving away the music for free and then relying on people liking it and giving money eitherusing micropayments or selling hard copies.. or .. both.. What about micropayments would you pay something like 10p to copy an mp3? Imnot sure how they work yet but it sounds interesting anyone know anything?
That sounds closer to classic "Shareware", but a couple of FS projects get some cash from donations like that. The "Free" of GPL and things like that is a freedom to re-use, copy, re-distribute and modify, not of price. Most FS is given away for no charge, but that is not required by the license: you just have to make the source code available and maintain the freedoms of copying and modification. So you could sell CDs, but give the people who buy them the right to copy, redistribute and remix providing they were not plagarizing, and that they offered the same freedom to their listeners/recipients... I guess in music there isn't a direct analog to source code, except maybe a library of samples and patches and things that you used to make the song, which could be distributed. reed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQE9wrHnFK83gN8ItOQRAgqkAKCF22dzXQ+WXlJpr24JVhkdfsx9kgCfQoMc 5rG1UYLtfCKRmP4cUhse7ZA= =HJL7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----