free music
Free music can also mean free improvisation: improvised music without any rules, and not in any particular style.
Free music, like free software, is music that can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. It does not mean that there should be no fee involved. The word free refers to freedom, not to price.
Some free music is licensed under licenses that are intended for software (like the GPL) or other written media (the GFDL). But there are also licenses especially for music and other works of art, such as EFF's Open Audio License, the Ethymonics free music license ([http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/tonyhb/]), LinuxTag's OpenMusic License ([http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/showitem.php?item=216]), the Free Art license and the Creative Commons Licences.
Some record labels distributing free music:
- LOCA Records
- Magnatune
- Opsound
- Krayola Records
See also: copyleft (*****) External links
- Information
-- The Free Music Philosophy
-- Free music article in the Oekonux wiki
-- The Netlabel Catalogue
- Collections
-- Opsound
-- Free Classical music on MIT
-- GNUArt.net (in French)
-- artlibre.org (French)
-- Tokyo Dawn Netlabel (Rap+Disco)
-- Open Music Registry
-- CAFE Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (EFF)
-- Free Superhits (in German)
-- Creative Commons
-- Scene.org The Scene's Hub
-- Irate Radio
-- Agnula Libre Music
- Bands, artists
-- Twisted Helices
-- iriXx
-- UNIT-E
-- IndusTree
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "free music".
free
See:
- freedom, libre
- free will
- free software
- gratis, free of charge, free as in beer
- Free (band)
- Free (rapper)
- free object in mathematics, some important special cases being the following:
-- free group
-- free abelian group
-- free module
-- free algebra
- free variable
- free climbing.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "free".
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