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Towards sensible music licensing for film: Beyond Creative Commons

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 2 August, 2010

What is the value of and best use of Creative Commons in terms of music for film and video? Steve Lawson (AKA @solobasssteve, warning he is one of the most logorrheic Twitter users I follow) tweeted a wish for easier and more explicit marking of Creative Commons licensed music on Bandcamp and Soundcloud particularly for use in video […]

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Give your music away: You have nothing to loose but your obscurity

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 6 July, 2010

Why don’t you give away your music for free? This is one of the sticking points in independent artist music marketing. People are scared to give access to their work for free but it can be an important tool in gathering the attention you need to make a living from your work in the longer term. Andrew […]

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Attribution Matters

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 13 August, 2009

The imaginary band album cover game has come back up on Facebook, perhaps it never really went away. It’s a chance operation game where you, Find a bandname via the Wikipedia random article function. The article title is the bandname. Find an album title via The Quotations Page random quotations page. The last three to five words of the […]

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