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> And then there are also music distribution sites using Public Commons 
> licensing. Michael Hirsch pointed me to MagnaTune a few months back...
&gt; &lt;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://magnatune.com/";>http://magnatune.com/</a>&gt;
&gt; 
&gt; The slogan next to their logo is &quot;we are not evil&quot; :-)
&gt; 
&gt; A lot of the material here is very unique and innovative, and free to listen 
&gt; to on stream.

John Buckman, the Magnatune founder, gave one of the keynotes at the Red 
Hat Summit last week. One of the things he said that I thought was 
interesting: when you buy an album on Magnatune, you can set the price 
(it's a drop-down selection box of values between $5 and $18), with the 
default price set to $8. I forget what the exact value was, but the 
average amount actually paid per album downloaded is somewhat greater than 
$8. Evidently when people know that 50% of the price goes straight to the 
artist (and when they can download in whatever format they want, from 
lo-fi MP3 up to CD-quality wav / FLAC) they're willing to pay more than is 
asked for....

later,
chris


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