On Tuesday 08 September 2009 10:38:34 Meir Kriheli wrote: > On 09/08/2009 10:29 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Meir Kriheli wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Much like the services industry around FLOSS a musician can perform live > >> concerts, merchandising etc. > >> > >> There are people looking for different business model in music as well > >> utilizing various CC licenses, see for example: > >> > >> http://www.jamendo.com/en/ > > > > These are guerilla movements, not mainstream like free software. The > > reality is that there is no free content market anywhere approaching the > > free software market, and the reasons are clear. > > > > - yba > > Just like FLOSS, everybody has to start somewhere. For sure it's bigger > compared to couple of years ago, and keeps growing. > > That's just an example, you can find more, e.g: > http://freemusicarchive.org/ >
Other resources: 1. http://search.creativecommons.org/ 2. http://en.wikibooks.org/ 3. http://wikimedia.org/ - the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia wikis are free content (CC-by-sa + GFDL) and can be redistributed and reused. 4. http://creativecommons.org/weblog - points to many resources about Creative Commons and free-content/open-content. 5. http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia - lots of topical wikis that are also open- content. 6. http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/? - see their Creative Commons search. And the list goes on. Recently, I've come to like Jamendo and downloaded a lot of good stuff from it. And I agree with Meir that the freely-distributable content movement needs to start from somewhere, and that hopefully it will become more mainstream soon. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Cheers > -- > Meir Kriheli > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
