Christian sez,
2012’s Free! Music! Contest has opened it’s gates at july first. It is the fourth time, that this event is being organized by Musikpiraten, a german society that promotes free art and espacially free music. Bands from all over the world participate in it to win a publication on CD, the so called “Free! Music! Sampler” and prizes worth more than 1.000 Euros.
This year’s motto “Freedom and Free Beer” reflects the very basic choice, every artist has to challenge: Shall my art be “free” as in “freedom” or “free” as in “free beer”? So unlike last year, where only cc-by and cc-by-sa licenses where allowed, this year music licensed under and creative commons license can be submitted.
The contest is officially supported by Creative Commons and the remixing portal ccMixter. The latter even announced a project featuring the contest, titled “Free Music & Free Beer. Background is, that Musikpiraten e.V., the foundation behind the contest, is being sued by the german royalty collection society GEMA for having published a creative commons licensed song last year without unrevealing the civil name of the artists. GEMA claims, they cannot verify that the artists are really allowed to publish their songs for free in the internet.
Freedom & Free Beer – der Free! Music! Contest 2012
(Thanks, Christian!)