Musopen
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| This site takes music that is in the public domain, meaning a work that
| belongs to the community, and has it recorded by individuals and
| college/community orchestras throughout the United States and stored online
| so it can be accessed for free through this website.
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http://www.musopen.com/
There are more sites like this. It seems like a hot trend that results in free
distribution of music and new revenue models (e.g. concerts, added value,
exclusive music, guitar lessons).
Related:
Free Music Project
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| Our first project is with OLPC, the One Laptop per Child project, also
| commonly referred to as the $100 Laptop.
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http://freemusic.freeculture.org/
Nine Inch Nails' Open Source Remix Album Available as Free Torrent
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| Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to
| over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the
| 21 best remixes are now free to download via torrent or stream via the
| website.
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http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/09/nine-inch-nails.html
Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD
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| The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free
| CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn
| widespread criticism from music retailers.
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| [...]
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| The Entertainment Retailers Association said the giveaway "beggars
| belief". "It would be an insult to all those record stores who have
| supported Prince throughout his career," ERA co-chairman Paul Quirk
| told a music conference. "It would be yet another example of the
| damaging covermount culture which is destroying any perception of
| value around recorded music.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2114557,00.html
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