Creative Commons music in the $100 laptop : Jamendo partners with One Laptop per Child

Jamendo, the quickly-growing free music community, is delighted to announce a partnership with the One Laptop per Child association (OLPC) to bring a selection of Creative Commons music to their $100 laptops.

OLPC, which relies exclusively on free software and free content in the laptop, will be able to add several collections of children-targeted free music from Jamendo to the OLPC library. Samuel Klein, the content director of OLPC, said “This is some fantastic jamming; now free music lovers everywhere can share their favorite playlists with our schools.”

Jamendo has always been about making people from different countries discover each other’s music. Sylvain Zimmer from Jamendo said : “It makes a lot of sense for us to help OLPC because their laptop is an excellent way to extend the music sharing values we defend to the developing countries and to children in particular.”

Jamendo is making it possible for everyone to submit a playlist for inclusion in the laptops. Each member of the community can create one or more special playlists for this occasion.

The playlists should have less than 20 minutes of music, contain only tracks appropriate for children and licensed under the Creative Commons BY or BY-SA licenses. To label a playlist for the OLPC, add “OLPC” before its name. For instance : OLPC music from Kenya.

Jamendo hopes to multiply partnerships with such amazing partners as the OLPC association in the next few months.

Mel Chua (OLPC) and Sylvain Zimmer (Jamendo)

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10 Responses to “Creative Commons music in the $100 laptop : Jamendo partners with One Laptop per Child”

1. alban Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 10:23 am

   Unbelievable ! Jamendo music is going to travel all around the world !!!

2. Graham Steel Says:
   September 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm

   I had not heard about Jamendo until 9 days ago.

   I’m utterly impressed.

   I had heard about OLPC but not in so much detail.

   Over the weekend, I submitted an entry to the SPARC Open Access Forum about OLPC/Jamendo and sincerely hope that this will be accepted for dissemination.

   Many congratulations Jamendo !!

   Graham Steel, Glasgow, Scotland

3. Nexami Engeo Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

   Although I love this idea, I don’t like that you need to change your music to a different license. Would it not be easier to say that for this one purpose, the music could be used and not have to change the license universally?

4. PSP Music Says:
   May 5th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

   Nice post. Very interesting info, thanks ..keep posting more

5. OLPC Compilation Says:
   June 1st, 2008 at 3:53 pm

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6. laptop repairs Says:
   September 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 am

   At the moment many companies are bringing out netbooks that cost around £150.00 they would be great for africa. At least they can get on the net. I hope the idea catches on. nice blog

7. Used Laptop Says:
   November 14th, 2008 at 8:07 am

   One good turn deserves another.Jamendo are sharing their music withOLPC program in turn they will be famous in other countries.

8. used cars Says:
   February 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

   Unbelievable ! Jamendo music is going to travel all around the world !!!

9. Bike Trader Says:
   April 1st, 2009 at 8:58 am

   Hey! Nice partnership.But i have never heard about OLPC Association till now.Eager to see in details what it is exactly connected with music.

10. computer service toronto Says:
    August 29th, 2009 at 5:15 am

    That is good creative care about kids.

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