Free music can also mean free improvisation: improvised music without any rules, and not in any particular style.

Free music, like free software, is music that can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. Thus free music is either in the public domain or licensed under a public license. It does not mean that there should be no fee involved. The word free refers to freedom (as in free software), not to price.

Some free music is licensed under licenses that are intended for software (like the GPL) or other written media (the GFDL). But there are also licenses especially for music and other works of art, such as EFF's Open Audio License, the Ethymonics free music license ([1]), LinuxTag's OpenMusic License ([2]), the Free Art license and the Creative Commons Licences.

Some record labels distributing free music:

• LOCA Records
• Magnatune
• Opsound
• Krayola Records
• Jamendo

See also:

• copyleft
• Taper-friendly bands

External links

• Information
  • kaen.org - netlabel database a large netlabel database and regular mixsets available for download.
  • The Free Music Philosophy
  • The etree.org wiki: etree pioneered the standards for distributing lossless audio on the net.
  • Free music article in the Oekonux wiki
  • The Netlabel Catalogue
  • Source for legal and free MP3 downloads
  • Epitonic.com
• Collections
  • The Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
  • db.etree.org: Information on every live concert in circulation
  • bt.etree.org: Download live concerts using bittorrent
  • Jamendo (good Platform from France, now in English too, uses Bittorrent)
  • Opsound
  • GNUArt.net (in French)
  • artlibre.org (French)
  • Tokyo Dawn Netlabel (Rap+Disco)
  • Open Music Registry
  • CAFE Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (EFF)
  • Free Superhits (in German)
  • Creative Commons
  • Scene.org The Scene's Hub
  • Irate Radio
  • Agnula Libre Music
  • Kahvi Collective (free electronic grooves)
  • one yet another netlabel
  • Audiri listen to bands and watch music videos

• Bands, artists
  • Twisted Helices
  • UNIT-E
  • IndusTree
  • Oedipus Project:::Adore
  • [3]-Csdkrew.com's mixcsd for freede:Freie Musik