Copyleft music : copyright free MP3 music and unsigned artists

The Loveparade will be back in Berlin on the 15 of July. See you there boys and girls!
More info auf Deutsch: http://www.loveparade.de/

Popular music gets that way because we’re social animals who follow the leads of influential people and/or the crowd, liking what others like because they like it.
A research project created a “music market” for 48 songs, in which participants were asked to score the songs from one to five stars. They tried a number of […]

During the 2006 NYC Free Culture Summit, Maggie Hennefeld and Thessaly La Force were filming for a documentary on Free Culture.org and internet activism. Free Culture.org is a website dedicated to keep culture free.
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In Canada a label is sueing the RIAA because they sued a girl which downloaded an illegal MP3 (the songs was from the label). The 15 year old girl downloaded Sk8tergirl by Avril Lavigne. The labels sues the RIAA because they are damaging and insulting the fans with insane claims.
“Suing music fans is not […]

The legal sale of copyright music triple to $1.1bn in 2005. Crucially, in some markets, including the UK and Germany, more listeners are downloading legal files than illicit ones according to market watcher Jupiter. IFPI said some 420m individual songs were downloaded via the internet legally in 2005 - more than 20 times the quantity […]

The entry of satellite and digital radio into the technological mainstream is increasing tension with the record industry, which wants new rules governing how consumers can make digital copies of songs from the airwaves.

At issue are new devices that can record and save high-quality digital copies of tunes as they’re being broadcast by these new […]

There is always something happening these days in the (online) music industry. We have DRM scandals, RIAA sueing everyone, France becoming P2P heaven … But today we have a new scandal and this time it is Apples iTunes

The problem:

Apple’s latest iTunes update, which, by default, switches on the “MiniStore,” an advertising/recommendation section that […]

In the week between Christmas and the new year, millions of consumers armed with new MP3 players and stacks of gift cards gobbled up almost 20 million tracks from iTunes and other download retailers, Nielsen SoundScan reports. Before the week ending January 1, 2006, the record for the most downloads sold in seven […]

Last night at the CES, Bill Gates announced Microsoft and MTV plan to jointly develop a digital music service, Urge, for users of the next-generation Windows Media Player. The service will offer downloads of MTV programmes, original content, online radio and over two million songs from top labels. There will be 2 pricing schemes, […]

According to Nielsen SoundScan sales of digital copyright tracks through services like iTunes have risen 150%, to well over 320 mln songs in 2005.