Magnatune
From Music Ontology Wiki
Magnatune Introduction
The Big Ideas:
- All music should be shareware. Just as with software, you want to preview, evaluate, and pass along good music to others--in the process of buying it.
- Find a way of getting music from the musician to their audience that's inexpensive and supports musicians. Otherwise, musical diversity will continue to greatly suffer under the current system where only mega-hits make money.
- Musicians need to be in control and enjoy the process of having their music released. The systematic destruction of musician's lives is unacceptable: musicians are very close to staging a revolution (and some already have).
- Creativity needs to be encouraged: today's copyright system of "all rights reserved" is too strict. We support the Creative Commons "some rights reserved" system, which allows derivative works, sampling and no-cost non-commercial use.
More information about Magnatune
References
- Magnatune Website
- Magnatune API (check for the SQL files in that page)
Converted Data Source
The DBTune project aims at giving dereferencerable URIs and RDF information for a number of music-related creative commons repositories. The RDF is designed according to the Music Ontology.
- Via a D2R Web Interface (from YvesRaimond)
- Via a SPARQL Endpoint (from YvesRaimond)
- RDF dump (from YvesRaimond)
More Creative Commons music repositories coming at the same place!
