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Monk Turner

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One line description of work:	Monk Turner is a musician of eclectic taste and an approach to releasing albums that involves CC licensing through the internet archive.
Pull Quote Do not use quotation marks.:	With Creative Commons licenses, I have the ability to distribute albums freely to anyone in the world without the need for a distributor and without worrying that someone could be using the songs outside of their intended purpose. I couldn’t do what I do without Creative Commons.
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== Overview == Monk Turner is an L.A.-based musician that has an extensive musical background as well as a broad interest in a variety of forms of music. He has been consistently releasing concept albums online at the Internet Archive as a means to escape the constraints of traditional music composition/distribution. == License Usage == Turner releases all of his concept albums online under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND] license. They are available at [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22Monk%20Turner%22 his Internet Archive page]. == Motivations == Turner chooses to license his works under CC so that the music can be released broadly and freely without any legal complications. He chooses to use a BY-NC-ND license in order to control public displays of the works as well as to assure collaborators that what they write/record is the final version. == Media ==

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