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Creative Commonsyour grandma can share your song with her loverit's freeit's free promotion and marketingit feels goodthe FBI won't come after youyou retain control of your rights (you keep your rights)it plays nice with the webit's your culture! (no more monopolizing of your culture)even though I like pirates, I don't like piracy (I don't want to be seen as one)can we be friendswelcome to our communityit's about our musicI didn't create my music in a vacuumcause artists like their fanscause we don't dig on clearchannel [The new model is about serving the artist, not exploiting them.]cause we want changeyes we can

push the concept of "non commercial"musicians are scared of loosing their rights - make it clear that they keep their rightsmusicians don't ever want anyone to make money of their creation (except themselves) without their explicit consent.if we can make that clear, their is no reason not to use sutros.Most of us have shared music illegally. We’ve downloaded songs for free, copied them and given them to friends, maybe we've even scored a sultry Johnny Depp photo montage to a certain Celine Dion hit song that we/I posted online.... So far, a lot of attention has been paid to the ways illegale music sharing benefits listeners, who have access to a huge breadth of music, while it hurts artists, whose livelihoods are being pirated away. And while you’d be hard-pressed to find many people mourning the decline of major record labels’ profits and Clear Channel’s control of the airwaves, the current conditions of music sharing have given rise to a culture where music theft is the norm and we're all criminals. Moreover, musicians are stuck trying to figure out how to promote and market their songs without a clear### model to follow.  Enter Sutros and Creative Commons licensing. Creative Commons licenses allow artists to dictate how they would like others to make use of their copyrighted material. That means musicians can invite the general public to listen and share their music, while still retaining their ability to enter into separate revenue-generating contracts for live concert tickets, merchandise and commercial licensing. And, by licensing music with Creative Commons and contributing it to Sutros, musicians gain a free, comprehensive means to promote (listening in database, library) and market (calendar, contact, direct sales) their music online.  To find out more about Creative Commons and the ways their licenses benefit musicians and their fans, take a look at all the resources available on the Creative Commons website: creativecommons.org Did you know? creative commons is an international liscensing agreement. - it's actually better than copyright.Did you know, that by releasing it on sutros, it guarantees that you have copyright of your work! publishing means ownership of copyright, so, instead of thinking of sending your songs to yourself with a self addressed enveloppe, you can just upload them to sutros...easy?Which lisc ence are we actually using

Works that carry a full copyright reserve all rights. Works in the public domain reserve no rights. Works that carry a Creative Commons license fall in the middle--you to keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work. It is a "some rights reserved" copyright. To learn more about CC licenses and why they're worthy of your support, check out Creative Commons' explanation of licensing. For a more thorough examination of the relationship between creativity, innovation and the law, take a look at Lawrence Lessig's book, The Future of Ideas.All sound files on Sutros are made available by the artists who contribute them under the "Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike" license. For listeners, this means:-You are free to listen, download, and share the music on Sutros with anyone you like so long as you give proper attribution to the artist or licensor/record company who holds the rights. -Adaptations such as remixes, covers and samples are explicitly allowed. These derivative works must be distributed under the same or similar Creative Commons license. -Noncommercial use is permitted free of cost. However, if someone were to make money with the music--that is, utilitze its commercial use--then she would be required to give the artist a share of her profits.

We've got Jay-Z, the biggest name in hip-hop and a former record company executive, telling the New York Times, '“In a way I want to operate like an indie band....Play the music on tour instead of relying on radio. Hopefully we’ll get some hits out of there and radio will pick it up, but we won’t make it with that in mind.”'

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street musicians and their music
In general terms, the place of a musician in contemporary society is becoming, more and more, a place that moves and a place which is unatainable, one that obliges musicians to infiltrate themselves in places that society throws at them and that are not always what they planned on. This is why the street musician is always leading the “way of the warrior”. For them, there can be no straight way only windy routes allow these musicians to have a life in which their passion for music take precedence over everything else, because amongst all the these difficulties, it is playing music that brings them happiness.


Coming from different horizons, the musicians and their music testify of the cultural diversity that characterize an urban society. Whether it be Folk Music groups from the Andes Mountains, Percussionists from Africa, gypsies… all are part of the social group that form the entirety of street musicians. Certainly, they are looking to make a living in this society, but they are also looking to fit into this society while affirming their cultural heritage, and identity. This way, they are creating themselves a social identity. Certainly, all cultural fact is “ a common language to express our differences and to enrich ourselves mutually.” Street music becomes a universal vehicle for communication between musicians of different cultural origins and listeners.


Street music could become only but noise in the background of a functionalized world , empty of meanin...