Case Studies/Soundrespect
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Overview
Soundrespect is a Indonesian netlabel based in Yogyakarta, a record label that explore new methods of distribution and publication of music through the Internet. Soundrespect focused on sharing of creative works, providing new opportunities for free culture musicians. Soundrespect is a non-profit activities, based on dedication of music.
Soundrespect gives talents the opportunity to publish their works to a wider public, and respect the talents who have financial constraints to release his work in physical form and provide alternative solutions through the net releases for free via digital audio format under the Creative Commons License.
License Usage
Indonesia has very strong music piracy, then all recordings including the cover artwork and liner note are released under Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA. This movement gained a very good feedback since Yes No Wave Music was established on 2007.
Motivations
In Indonesia, Creative Commons license give a proper protection and its attribution rule giving an awareness for media, music fans and web bloggers to be noted that appreciation of an artworks is not just by buying it. But the problem is that CC Indonesia has not available yet.
