Chris Ulbrich, Music Label Cashes in by Sharing, Wired News, October 8, 2003. On Magnatune and its "open music" business model which combines "shareware, open source and grass-roots activism". Magnatune allows free online access to all the music in its catalog, hoping that consumer sampling will encourage sales. When consumers do buy, fully half the price is paid to the artist as a royalty. The company's motto is "We are not evil."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/09/2003 11:51:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
