While platter label and publishers are locked in lawsuits and effectual fuzz - pulling , independent artists are using Creative Commons ( CC ) licence as a new packaging tool : keep your copyright , but let consumers replicate or even sample your song . Your next Flash Drive might even have albums on it ( or is that the other way around ? ): indie on-line labelMagnatuneand manufacturing business Hana Micro have loaded up theTunePlugUSB crusade with ten album under a CC license . The first ‘ volume ’ commence at $ 19.99 ; the $ 69.99 512 MB model has all ten album on it pre - wet . More detailson CDM .
Peter Kirn , editor ofcreatedigitalmusic , checks in regularly with gear too cool for only musicians to be in the know .
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