Free music

Free music

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Free music is music that, like free software, can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. Thus free music is either in the public domain or licensed under a free license. It does "not" mean that there should be no fee involved. The word free refers to freedom (as in free software), 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, LinuxTag's Open Music License, the Free Art license and the Creative Commons Licences.

Record labels distributing free music

* FREE!MUSIC
* Magnatune
* Jamendo
* Dogmazic
* Krayola Records
* LOCA Records
* Opsound
* Epitaph Records
* 8bitpeoples

Bands distributing their music for free

* Binärpilot
* The Bastard Fairies
* NuL
* Harvey Danger
* Nine Inch Nails
* Turmion Kätilöt
* Paniq

ee also

*Free Culture movement
*File sharing
*Copyleft
*Open music
*Open Music Model
*Podsafe
*Deezer

External links

* [http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp.html The Free Music Philosophy]
* [http://wiki.etree.org/ The etree.org wiki] : etree pioneered the standards for distributing lossless audio on the net.


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