BeatPick Blog on music licensing, creative commons music, gigs

On monday the 13th of November we will be attending an event here in London hosted by the Open Rights Group called Release the Music.

The object of the event will be to explore whether the term of copyright protection on sound recordings should stay at 50 years or be extended.

The Open Rights Group believes that term extension is such an important issue that it deserves focused and rigourous discussion. What they’s done has been to invite people from a number of backgrounds in order to get a better understanding of the different thoughts and opinions on the subject.

Anyone who is interested and will be in the area should definitely think of heading down. Registration for the event is free but places are limited so it would probably be wise to book sooner rather than later.

Hope to see y’all there!

Time: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
London, WC1
United Kingdom

1. Last week Ralph Lauren licensed one of our tracks (Why Goodbye by Auditory Sculpture)to be played at their New York Fashion Week (check the show here ).
2. This tuesday, a wintersport and bike company based in Switzerland licensed three of our tracks (Movement Revolution and Take Charge by Cranston Foundation and Sympathy by January Jaunt) to go on their promotional cd.
3. Wednesday, a London-based film company called Meta Films licensed Crash by Carl Moses to go on their promotional video, which is already up on their homepage.

Well the news of the day is that not one, not two, not three but four of our tracks were chosen to be podcasted on the very eminent website indieish.com!!! The tracks were Outang Swing, by Manu; Amigo!, by Papo Ross and Orquestra Pambiche; the Long Road Ohm, by The Alpha Rhythm; and Foua by Municipale Balcanica.
Chris, who’s blog is called CC:365 not only took the time to select some of our tracks, he even made nice little reviews for each of the ones he chose. You can find the three tracks and their mini-reviews in the following links:

• http://indieish.com/2006/10/13/day-286-manu-outang-swing/

• http://indieish.com/2006/10/14/day-287-papo-ross-orquestra-pambiche/

• http://indieish.com/2006/10/15/day-288-the-alpha-rhythm-the-long-road-ohm/

• http://indieish.com/2006/10/16/day-289-municipale-balca-foua/

So be sure to check those all out, and definitely bookmark the CC:365 blog because it promises to provide our ears with lots of extra-special creative commons music for some time to come!