[advocacy] Re: Personal Music License

[Daniel James]

>     On the other hand let's imagine that there's an artist called
> David Bowie, who understands how the internet works. He's savvy
> enough about the content industry to have set up his own publishing
> company, so he owns the rights to his own songs. He lets us
> download his work and share it freely with his blessing,
>
> Does David Bowie in fact do this?

Well, it's a hypothetical example. The Bowie website is a gated
community, entered only by subscribers, so I can't use the 'Ask
David' feature to find out if he would release tracks in .ogg format.

http://www.davidbowie.com/freebowie2/preview/index.html

He is currently using RealAudio (uggh) although this is could be
because he hasn't tried Ogg or Icecast yet - probably doesn't know
they exist. Any davidbowie.com members on this list who could ask?

I think an .ogg release by a 'household name' artist would be a great
accompaniment to the 1.0 release. Any suggestions for who I should
try to ask next, list people?

Daniel

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