This is one of a series of videos by Frances Pinter and David Percy that look at building businesses based on Creative Commons licenses. It takes a look at Magnatune, a digital music store built on CC licenses, and the company’s founder, John Buckman. Creative Commons licenses are a set of free tools designed to [...]

The Open Rights Group has an in-depth look at Magnatune, a pioneering record label that licenses its releases under Creative Commons licenses. This means that Magnatune’s music is: Shareable: Users are invited to share their purchased tracks with up to three friends, can listen to the entire catalogue for free via the website’s 128kbps streams, [...]

Magnatune is using some great pro-podcasting propaganda at its site to promote music podcasting. The Podcasting is Selling Music logo parodies a 1980′s campaign by the British Phonograph Industry, Home Taping is Killing Music. Despite the best C30-C60-C90 efforts of home tape-makers, music somehow survived. Magnatune is a net music label that specializes in Creative-Commons [...]

UK Podcasters will be assembling this weekend for for November 18th’s PodcastCon, a UK podcasting expo, held this year in Shoreditch, London. According to organizers, the conference promises something for all types of podcasters, with an extensive program and live music sets from well-known podsafe artists. Panelists include: US podcaster C.C. Chapman, Nicole Simon from [...]

Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser made some comments recently that are sure to generate controversy, suggesting that half the music on iPods is illegal and that the music industry made a mistake dealing with Apple. “The music industry has made a mistake, not by agreeing to Apple’s fixed-price level, which is what gets all the [...]