Directory of Music Freedom Resources

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Groups or pages defending the unrestricted distribution of music/songs, instead of a few large corporations having monopoly grants on them. They usually believe that artists are actually harmed/repressed by the current copyright system, because fewer are able to produce music and fewer people are able to hear their works.

Subcategories

• Audio Files
• Corrupted Audio CDs

Resources in This Category

• Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War

  http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html
  Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.

• Free Music

  http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html
  Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.

• News.com - File sharing legal in Canada

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html
  Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.

• NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774
  DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast]

• PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA

  http://www.pcworld.com/article/112677/article.html
  A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.

• Policing Pirates in the Networked Age

  http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html
  A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.

• Recording Industry vs. the People

  http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
  Collects and shares information about the lawsuits brought against ordinary people by the RIAA and the majors. By Ray Beckermann, business lawyer in New York City.

• The Problem With Music

  http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
  Essay by Steve Albini discusses how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.

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