Wednesday, April 6, 2011

If music is an independent netlabel live without the SIAE

He had said in many, confirmed by the Court of Auditors of the United States: "The estimates of the damage of piracy are false." New studies have shown that the artists make money out of file sharing and the world are increasing efforts to open music libraries. In Brazil, following the public consultation for the reform of copyright law has made the proposal to legalize non-commercial filesharing paying a fixed fee as an incentive to broadband.

And in Italy you try to do without the traditional intermediaries to produce independent music to download and play online without paying. All music online dell'italianissima BuskerLabel is free and legal because it was published with Creative Commons licenses. The same applies to Sub Terra - netlabel was born in the woods of Tuscia - copyleft that makes its mission.

Which means that a label is copyleft is easy to imagine: all records produced and distributed, are licensed under Creative Commons or similar licenses that allow free and legal download and I encourage copying and sharing. A Subterra are convinced that "the free digital version available on the web does not detract from the charm of a physical medium, you can buy online and receive a consignment." These labels often rely on a distribution of their work through alternative channels such as community centers or banquet events and live concerts in which music and distribute catalogs using the pen-drive (the "keys" usb).

But they do even more together with their authors. With the "obscene. Music elsewhere," Hyaena Reading, ImagoSound and the Popular Front for the free music they have created a circuit of small places unusual, obscene (ie off), and somewhere other than the usual, where you can play the vivo.

Places can be town houses, private villas, houses, libraries, art galleries, small and large rooms sensitive to the concept of copyleft and open, to add performance to the value of sharing human and cultural, providing a real alternative to the traditional music circuit. Places obscene words for events like concerts performed very intimate and informal.

Labels are independent in that they produce and distribute self-produced music unbound by the constraints that govern the market for majors and indies. Above all have a special relationship with the authors, who often are characterized by criticism of copyright collecting societies and the role of traditional, as Hyaena Reading, "not inclined to compromise in terms of the artistic management, the will of its authors is not proud of be protected by the SIAE tracks according to the old, traditional copyright useless.

" Ditto for that Rein ten years experience a new way to produce and promote music, inspired by the fundamental principle of shared culture. Challenging the traditional distribution system, selling thousands of copies just by word of mouth among their supporters. These are not boys, giving the music just to be known as appear in the calendar of international festivals alongside artists such as Patti Smith and Tracy Chapman.

Their last album, "It 's over," was launched exclusively in free-download on the web, and then move to a distribution more "classic", a provocative way "to show the inadequacy of the customary practices of production and promotion a record of their agony. " Of course, to let people know this music is not enough to make it free, and then creates each netlabel its webzine, relies on a web radio (as fusoradio) works and disseminates information on the major social networks, it aims to convince the fans of the genre, offering opportunity to participate in company with donations or directly sponsoring the bands who do not want to turn to the majors.

The model is that of crowfunding which has already been shown to have a good chance in the field of journalism. For example, you can preview buskerlabel unreleased album, receive exclusive bonus tracks and download music in high fidelity fund their favorite artist. But if the economic aspect for the artists of the netlabel can become secondary, what about the theft of creativity? Release a disc Creative Commons does not necessarily mean to sell it free and leave it in the public domain, and there is always the risk that someone will take it.

Every artist does not just make the plays, but his music is being recognized as an author. Here is part of the opportunity of marking time. A group of computer scientists and engineers for this Roman has launched a project, "Patamu" for the protection of musical ideas and more. Patamu offers a service for time stamping and a digital safe deposit where books and ideas, and that uses encryption to protect the authenticity and birthright.

Patamu has recently teamed up with the label Creative Commons to protect Sonoran subconscious plagiarism from the new album released under cc. The system is free for amateur use and for a limited number of transactions, but also offers a subscription service for those who have different needs.

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