At 01:57 PM 11/1/02 +0000, you wrote:
So wot does the discussion grope think about copyleft
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html for anyone who wants to read up on it.
Im researching something like that for my label
As copyleft is described on the GNU site it's more like producing something which is put into the public domain, and any subsequent derivative work must also be considered to be in the public domain. It doesn't exactly solve sampling disputes though--under the terms of the copyleft licence on GNU.org, if i write a copylefted song and then say Thrash samples it without asking and puts it on a CD which he sells, then Thrash would be falling foul of the licence. If on the other hand he made another copyleft song then that would be perfectly alright. Then again anyone who puts a song half into PD will probably be pretty amicable about being sampled.
Giving away the music for free and then relying on people liking it and giving money either using micropayments or selling hard copies.. or .. both..
This sounds more like music on a shareware or donationware basis than copyleft. Course something like that is already unofficially underway with file sharing and officially underway with things like radio (except that radio involves all sorts of royalty-related stuff and actual money).
What about micropayments would you pay something like 10p to copy an mp3?
What quality? :) It's not so much the sum that's in question, but a matter of how the money gets distributed. If someone does manage to come up with a widely accepted and well known facility for administering micropayments--maybe something like an e-bank which people can pay money into via credit card or whatever--that'll make things a lot easier. And of course it'll mean there'll be no record company nicking off with a heap of the gross revenue because of distribution/marketing/pressing/Rolls Royce downpayment. The micropayment company will probably be inserting a few administrative charges into the equation tho. Makes me wonder why ISPs themselves can't sort that kind of thing out. More shit to deal with perhaps?
Im not sure how they work yet but it sounds interesting anyone know anything?
Not a clue. I'm into comics as well and in the book "Reinventing Comics", Scott McCloud was talking about using micropayments for people to buy pages of comics online, something like 5c a page or something. Someone pointed out later that it's all very well for Scott to say such stuff because he's already famous.
How would the mcps deal with the micropayment thing I wonder would it go to them first? Do you think it will damage your sales as opposed to the other method? (no free copies)
Free copies may as well be seen to be a good thing. Some of my commercially released music is floating around free on Soulseek right now and when i told the label owner, he said it was free publicity. Pity the cunts who pirated the CD in the first place fucked up the name of the album when they 'released' it. It's more likely to hurt sales if you don't market and promote properly, but that's a given. It's also more likely to hurt sales if you release shit music too, but in countries like Australia where they let you listen to the CD first (heard this isn't the case in the US) there's already protection against such things.
I like the way copyleft lets others copy and sample at will that s good..
That's potentially the best bit, yeh. All the sample fodder. Kwook www.kwookyworld.com Herewhere is rain. Herewhere is cold.