You can laugh at
Open Source , you can ignore it, you can live it. Open Source software is a ubiquitous phenomenon and everyone has the right to relate to this as you please.
What is open source
music ? Why not just music? And where to find it? ..
By analogy with software, Open Source music is music for which gratuitous copying, distribution, demonstration, modification and development of own works on the basis of this work is allowed, provided that the authorship of the original is mentioned.
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The most vivid example of licensing such music is
Creative Commons , one of its forms has already been described by
alizar in its recent
topic .
In a nutshell, according to Creative Commons, the author voluntarily transfers
part of his rights to the public. How it works is best seen in the
comic book on the site of the
Russian localization of licenses Creative Commons .
Music protected by such a license can be used not only for educational films. If you are a musician, you can perfectly remix, cover versions of original compositions. You can use it as podcasting music. You do not need to pay anyone for this, but only if you yourself follow the original license.
Where to find?It would be foolish to write about free music and not share links =)
Jamendo - for the time being only about 90000 tracks of independent artists.
Opsound - still about 352 performers
On
Archive.org - this music is also not at all enough.
Updates:magnatuneZY If you can share a link to freely distributed music - do not prohibit. I urge =)