Comments on: Legally Free Moby Tunes for the Indie You http://www.indyish.com/legally-free-moby-tunes-for-the-indie-you/ You might be awesome, but we are the Indyish! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:43:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Risa Dickens http://www.indyish.com/legally-free-moby-tunes-for-the-indie-you/#comment-23700 Risa Dickens Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:33:23 +0000 http://www.indyish.com/legally-free-moby-tunes-for-the-indie-you#comment-23700 totally challenging and exciting, agreed! what i love is the subtlety of the license, it's making distinctions between kinds of usage that won't hurt moby but will get his work into a ton of other art of the kind he supports and therby increase his fan base and the quality of his relationship with them. question about myspace - i believe it is the case that songs uploaded there can be used to promote anything else owned by the same company? that's been my understanding. http://earfarm.blogspot.com/2006/05/myspace-wants-to-steal-your-songs.html totally challenging and exciting, agreed! what i love is the subtlety of the license, it’s making distinctions between kinds of usage that won’t hurt moby but will get his work into a ton of other art of the kind he supports and therby increase his fan base and the quality of his relationship with them.

question about myspace - i believe it is the case that songs uploaded there can be used to promote anything else owned by the same company? that’s been my understanding.

http://earfarm.blogspot.com/2006/05/myspace-wants-to-steal-your-songs.html

]]> By: Tessa http://www.indyish.com/legally-free-moby-tunes-for-the-indie-you/#comment-23673 Tessa Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:32:46 +0000 http://www.indyish.com/legally-free-moby-tunes-for-the-indie-you#comment-23673 but myspace (and other networking sites) use programs that apply further compression to mp3s, making them low low quality to listen to, except as a sample track. if you want a digital music file for your ipod, cd player, etc. and are willing to listen to an mp3 rather than an uncompressed format, i would say the best bet is direct from the artist, label, or distributor who would generally value sound integrity more than a site that treats the songs as part of a larger networking system. i do like myspace's player (i think most of the music i listen to lately is on myspace pages) and it's great to be able to download a track or two to try it out in your playlists (ok, i don't do that. i don't have an ipod though...) the freeness of mobygratis is what's interesting to me. it makes total sense that if a film isn't making any money, the music would be free to use in said film. this is usually the case if you ask a buddy to make the soundtrack for your indie film. but here it's bigtime music, moby is established, so it opens new possibilities for filmmakers. it also brings into question the system by which he became "big" that simultaneously disabled peers from having access to his music because of contracts, licenses, etc. i'm still having internal debates about my stance on downloading. but mostly i am excited by the potential for new models of distribution and access. challenging though... but myspace (and other networking sites) use programs that apply further compression to mp3s, making them low low quality to listen to, except as a sample track. if you want a digital music file for your ipod, cd player, etc. and are willing to listen to an mp3 rather than an uncompressed format, i would say the best bet is direct from the artist, label, or distributor who would generally value sound integrity more than a site that treats the songs as part of a larger networking system.

i do like myspace’s player (i think most of the music i listen to lately is on myspace pages) and it’s great to be able to download a track or two to try it out in your playlists (ok, i don’t do that. i don’t have an ipod though…)

the freeness of mobygratis is what’s interesting to me. it makes total sense that if a film isn’t making any money, the music would be free to use in said film. this is usually the case if you ask a buddy to make the soundtrack for your indie film. but here it’s bigtime music, moby is established, so it opens new possibilities for filmmakers. it also brings into question the system by which he became “big” that simultaneously disabled peers from having access to his music because of contracts, licenses, etc.

i’m still having internal debates about my stance on downloading. but mostly i am excited by the potential for new models of distribution and access. challenging though…

]]> By: Lise Treutler http://www.indyish.com/legally-free-moby-tunes-for-the-indie-you/#comment-23646 Lise Treutler Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:49:15 +0000 http://www.indyish.com/legally-free-moby-tunes-for-the-indie-you#comment-23646 this is awesome -- kudos to moby! one thing i always liked about myspace music pages was the option to make songs on available for download, free and legal and by the choice of the artist. these days, it's a nice gesture to fans and/or newcomers to give them a track or two to add to their playlists. i've read a bunch of zines where at the beginning, there will be a statement like "steal what you want to use for your own purposes; i did!" (sometimes followed by a respectful request for credit if it's the writer's own work). i like that. it fits in with the "fair is far" idea -- you can't put more restrictions on what you've done than ones you've worked around! this is awesome — kudos to moby!

one thing i always liked about myspace music pages was the option to make songs on available for download, free and legal and by the choice of the artist. these days, it’s a nice gesture to fans and/or newcomers to give them a track or two to add to their playlists.

i’ve read a bunch of zines where at the beginning, there will be a statement like “steal what you want to use for your own purposes; i did!” (sometimes followed by a respectful request for credit if it’s the writer’s own work). i like that. it fits in with the “fair is far” idea — you can’t put more restrictions on what you’ve done than ones you’ve worked around!

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