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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 15:28:23 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • thelovebug
   • Craig Maloney ☕
   So, here's my current thoughts on https://twitter.com/musicmanumit/status/977686842303709185 , which takes into account the suggestions of @craigmaloney and @thelovebug who both think education is the most important aspect.
   
   I'm not ready to commit to anything, but here's what I'm thinking: Do a festival of some sort where all the live performances are released under some CC license and put up on the #FMA. The bands wouldn't already need to be doing CC work. It would be a way for bands to experiment with the license, which fulfills the educational piece a lot of the the "Other" have been talking about.
   
   Although it's limited, I do have some festival experience. It's a huge undertaking. Doing it would mean someone else would need to take over the #CCMA, or the CCMA would need to go dormant for a while. I need to talk to Tom and Mike, but I don't think it's impossible.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 15:31:03 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • music
     • Federation of free musicians
     • Creative Commons Music
     • Minnesota, USA
     • sndchaser
     • Aaron Wolf
     I guess I should get this to !ccmusic, !musicians, !minnesota, !music, @sndchaser, and @wolftune
     
     Also, it's worth noting that Music Manumit got started out of the thought of doing something exactly like this, and we thought we needed to build up more community involvement.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 15:43:00 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Craig Maloney ☕
     It's interesting that you're both podcasters. I wish I had a breakdown of who voted for what. I think netlabels don't see this aspect since we (speaking as a blocSonic owner here) take care of the licensing. It is, admittedly, super-annoying when a netlabel release is under one license and the band doesn't take the time to use that license on their own page. I don't personally see this as a huge problem, but it does require some book-keeping.
     
     But it does bring up an interesting thought about non-CC netlabels. I don't think there are a ton of them, but it's not something I've done a ton of research on.
     
     Also, while Music Manumit is a podcast, it's an entirely different sort of beast than what the two of you do. There's a lot less searching for us on a per-week basis, although we did formerly have to deal with the whole -ND thing...which we finally got sick of a removed...plus, we decided it might be interesting to see why bands pick -ND. So, I guess there's an educational component there.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 15:43:40 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Craig Maloney ☕
     ...and the question still remains about how large to try to promote this show (I'm thinking this specifically since you aren't so far away in Michigan). After working with Open Everything ~10 years ago, I'd say trying to coordinate shows in different locations is not going to be worth it.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 16:16:52 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Craig Maloney ☕
     in the case of Open Everything, we had organizers in multiple places, but in this case we're starting from scratch. Chicago seems like an obvious place if we were going to do midwest, but the problem is I'm not there, and I don't have a ready-made person to work on it there. It's just more work to get them in the fold. We probably know enough people in Madison to make it happen, even with me not there, but Twin Cities probably makes the most sense if it's something I'm going to be doing. I should talk to Ty though. He's already doing Mad with Power. Hell, maybe Mad with Power could just do this in 2019.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Mar-2018 16:45:49 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Pete Daniels
     @pete you know of a good place to do something like this around here? I asked Brent, who is a musicians. My connections are pretty limited here atm, but there's no hurry.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Mar-2018 02:10:16 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     First local I asked to be involved said 'That's as great idea it allows musicians to sort of "try out" CC license. Yeah I'd be interested in it' -- waiting on some others