CREATIVE COMMONS

Creative Commons is a company that offers licensing for music and other creative works. But what is interesting about it is that it offers a good alternative to traditional copyright. Because you have different kind of licenses - the creator/author can choose the kind of license - it doesn't limit creativity of others who might want to use your work. Which is the opposite of an all rights reserved copyright. We can notice that more and more artists are joining Creative Commons and I believe that the company has a very prolific future. To find out more about the licenses and how it works, use the link below.

Source: CREATIVE COMMONS

COMES WITH MUSIC

Even though it has been launched in 2008 already, Nokia's Comes With Music is still relevant as new business model for the music industry. If you have lived in a cave for the past two years and you have just come out of it, the idea behind Nokia's Comes With Music is to give the subscribers free downloadable music for the whole period of the contract, which you can also keep after the end of the contract. This seems like a good idea, but few problems appeared shortly before the launch in the UK about one and a half year ago. Is the service really free? How are the labels gonna be paid? What are the artists getting? I will leave these questions open and direct you to the link below for a detailed recap on the issues that surfaced in 2008.

Source: THE GUARDIAN