Illegal Art | Free Music – Steinski’s Rough Mix

Free Music Friday:  Creative License: Steinski’s Rough Mix is a free DJ mix that features songs and artists discussed within Kembrew McLeod & Peter DiCola’s new book Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling. The free download features hundreds of songs and samples mashed together by Steinski, the sonic cut-and-paste artist best known… Read More Illegal Art | Free Music – Steinski’s Rough Mix

Free Creative-Commons Orchestral Sample Library – Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra

The Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra is a free Creative Commons-licensed orchestral sample library in .sfz format. While not as advanced or ambitious in scope as commercial offerings, Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra contains all the basic building blocks for creating real virtual orchestrations. Features: Sample library created from free/CC-licensed/public domain instrument samples. Melodic instruments and chromatic percussion are… Read More Free Creative-Commons Orchestral Sample Library – Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra

TechDirt’s Michael Masnick On The State Of The Music Industry

This video captures Michael Masnick’s Learning From What’s Working: Success Stories From The Music Commerce Frontier. Masnick is the founder of TechDirt – a technology blog that has been a vocal critic of the music industry’s approach to technology, especially DRM and its opposition to P2P file sharing. You can safely skip the first 2… Read More TechDirt’s Michael Masnick On The State Of The Music Industry