This not really related to Jamendo but it sets an important milestone for Creative Commons.
CNN has decided to release the upcoming U.S. presidential debates under a Creative Commons type license.
Would you like Jamendo to open some “politics” / “audio books” / “speeches” categories ?
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May 6th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I think Jamendo should be mainly focused towards music, but I wouldn’t mind those new categories being created, as long as all the files in them allow everyone the freedom to at least distribute unmodified copies non-commerically.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
If you could open a categorie for “Audio books” I would be very, very pleased - perhaps you could cooperate with LibriVox?
Ad Astra
May 8th, 2007 at 7:42 am
I’d be up for all of those categories and might even add upload my own work when my first novel gets done. Also, there are a dozen or so people that I know that would be interested in it as well.
May 8th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Indeed, that’s great news! About the “speech” section if I was in charge for that decision I’d make a “brother” site, dedicated to these things and leave Jamendo focused on music. Jamendo is great and beautiful because its strictly about music, no frills, no videos, just music, so I’d leave it the way it is
May 9th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I’ve thought about this (esp considering that some already have posted such things leaving them out there mingling with all the music).
I kind of like it focused the way it is now.
~Conley
May 11th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Surely that would be great!
May 12th, 2007 at 1:52 am
Yes! An “audiobooks” category would be most fitting for Jamendo.
May 13th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Please NO
May 13th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Why not ? This may be really interesting…
May 13th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
i think it’s a good idea, it would be nice have easy access to this kind of stuff.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Audio books do sound good.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I like the idea, BUT only if each category can have a space of it’s own.
Right now Jamendo is all music. If you add more categories, you should put the music at “music.jamendo.com”, and the politics at “news.jamendo.com”, and the audio books at “audiobooks.jamendo.com” (you get the idea). One of the main reasons I avoid certain websites is because their front page is covered with tasteless news articles and pictures. Giving each section an address of it’s own will allow people to go to only the sections they want– and skip the ones they don’t want to see. If you do something like that, I completely support the idea of adding more sections– if you don’t do something like that it will degrade the quality of Jamendo and I hate the idea of that!
Jamendo Rocks! (literally)
~ JD :)
May 20th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
That’s great! Hurray!
Yeah I would like such categories!
May 25th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I dunno. I can see a strong argument for just staying with music. If you move to include non-artistic spoken word, you complicate the Jamendo interface. (What is an album? What is a song?) If you limit it to music (and artistic audio at the very least), then you simplify the interface. That lets the Jamendo devs better focus on the core aspects of the site.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:36 am
I think this would be a valueable extension to the community. Publishing audio documents of historical importance under the CC is a great idea.
.EMC
May 30th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Yes, I think this would be a good extension!
Our culture also consists of society and is influenced by politics, so why not give Jamendo a chance to free our society ;-)
June 4th, 2007 at 8:54 am
YES!!! Absolutely. It would really help to have a place to find Creative Commons material of this sort. :-)
June 5th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I would love audio books.