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  Science Fair Projects - LOCA Records
Inspired by GNU/Linux, Loca Records allows similar freedoms as the GNU General Public License on their releases, including copying, re-release, modification, and sampling, with the requirement that the new work uses the same license.
Loca's first and second release in 1999, Kinematic and the Mandibles EP, were released under the GNU General Public License and subsequent releases have been on the EFF Open Audio License.
Loca is planning a true Open-Source release with the new ML album which will contain a selection of samples used to make the track along with the music on a computer readable data section of the CD.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/LOCA_Records   (385 words)

  
 Online Events
LOCA believes that the fight over Free/Libre and Open Content and Media is a struggle over the freedom of expression and the freedom of speech, radically opening up the possibilities of media.
To this end LOCA is releasing music under copyleft, a license that enables music writers to develop music collaboratively and equitably and then release it into the commons.
Loca hope that musicians who contemplate using the work released in this manner will honour the license and release their work under a public license resulting in a radical rejection of the whole capitalist ethos of these multinational media corporations.
www.tate.org.uk /onlineevents/archive/open_congress/sound.htm   (1020 words)

  
 Wired News: Record Label Sings New Tune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Record labels have long been accused of stealing musicians' copyrights as soon as the ink is dry on the contract.
Loca Records wants to foster experimentation and freedom in music by building a stable of free music which can be shared, remixed and manipulated by anyone.
Berry said that Loca Records, which does not sign exclusive contracts with its artists, is investing in musicians by giving them the freedom to experiment and build on each other's creations.
www.wired.com /news/digiwood/0,1412,61282,00.html?tw=wn_culthead_2   (929 words)

  
 3eyes - Loca
Loca is an artist-led interdisciplinary project on mobile media and surveillance; exploring the shifting boundaries between art practice, the event and data systems.
A major component of the Loca project is the deployment of a cluster of interconnected, self-sufficient bluetooth nodes that enable Loca to track anyone with any device that has bluetooth set to discoverable.
Loca attempts to equip people to deal with this ambiguity and to draw their own conclusions.
3eyes.co.uk /views/public/?doc=Loca   (759 words)

  
 OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Loca Records
Loca has been releasing records under copyleft licenses, (GPL, Open Audio License, CC) since 1999 and have used a variety of different licenses and approaches.
Loca releases 1000 copy runs in physical formats such as vinyl and CD, this gives the release an added aesthetic aura.
These releases are then licensed under the creative commons attribution-sharealike license which permits others to freely use the work providing that it is released under the same license.
www.openbusiness.cc /2005/09/26/loca-records   (546 words)

  
 Music Goes Loca : Soul Shine Magazine
In an age where record companies are holding a tighter reign on the catalogues and copyrights of artists the British company Loca Records is doing just the opposite.
Loca will permit any who want permission to copy, rework and release their music.
At this time Loca only has a handful of musicians on the label and their records are only available in Europe.
www.soulshine.ca /news/newsarticle.php?nid=78   (241 words)

  
 Libre Society Wiki Library: mesh issue 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
To this end LOCA is attempting to release music under so-called copyleft, a license that enables music writers to develop music collaboratively and equitably and then releasen it into the public domain.
With LOCA releases you are free to copy and resell and sample and resample etc. However they do not contain the source files which we used to make the music...
LOCA believes that without the ability to use works in radically new ways we lose our rights to free public debate and expression and control over our lives.
www.libresociety.org /library/libre.pl/mesh_issue_1   (5347 words)

  
 p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
While what used to be the Big Five record labels and their mouthpiece, the RIAA, piss and moan about p2p file sharing and how tough things are, in the indie music world, things aren't changing: they've already changed.
In contrast, LOCA believes that creativity requires that musicians reappropriate and reinterpret music and sounds to enable them to create truly innovative music.
To this end LOCA is attempting to release music under so-called copyleft, a license that enables music writers to develop music collaboratively and equitably and then release it into the public domain.
p2pnet.net /ez/index.php/news/content/view/full/191/?eZSESSIDnews=0b9b43f72f1b5dfd7b4742c3fda3bdff   (770 words)

  
 MWB Recordings Home
Growing up in Aberdeen, WA he eventually made his way to Longbeach, CA and became a keyboardist experimenting with rave and techno.
After studying music theory and piano on his own he decided to publish his own music through MWB Recordings.
They cannot be used for commercial purpose without written consent from MWB Recordings.
www.mwbrecordings.com   (436 words)

  
 DeWitt Clinton » Blog Archive » Loca Records
The mission statement at Loca Records resonates with our concerns about copyrights.
In an attempt to address these issues, they are using a licensing structure called the Creative Commons, which similar in spirit to the GNU Public License, the license frequently applied to Open Source Software.
Loca’s plan is intriguing, as they will offer the music as downloadable CD images, which the user can burn to disc at home.
blog.unto.net /breakdown/000015   (355 words)

  
 Current News
Rumors are that from the early hours of dawn, young fans staled at the streets in order to be the firsts to enter the music store and to have the chance to see the famous artist.
It is expected that in the next days Ricky Martin and his song "Livin La Vida Loca" will break a super sales record marking a new precedent for exceeding the five millions of copies sold in the pre-sale in such a short period of time.
Ricky Martin is the first solo Latin male artist of the SoundScan era to hit #1 on the Hot 100 and is the first male artist to have the #1single on the Hot 100 in over a year (the last was Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit lt" in March 1998).
www.angelfire.com /az2/lavidaloca/news.html   (1409 words)

  
 OpenBusiness » 2005 » September
Several hundred new Tecno Brega records are produced and released every year by local artists, with both the production and distribution taking place outside of the mainstream music industry.
One such example consists of artists recording their live concert sets at the parties in real time and then selling the recordings at the conclusion of the event.
As a small label, copyleft licensing has allowed a fan-base to develop that is very enthusiastic about the ability to use the music in a number of different ways and also to grow the artists on the label.
www.openbusiness.cc /2005/09   (3535 words)

  
 ORAH
Open-source record labels are inspired by the co-operative and communitarian ventures of the open-source and free software movements.
It's a “copyleft” licence produced by Creative Commons that fires the work of the New York based open source label Opsound www.opsound.org Musician are invited to contribute their sounds to an “open pool”, from which they may be remixed, sampled, or just listened to.
By taking the work out of the virtual, Loca demonstrates that open source is not simply a marketplace of ideas, it can be real marketplace.
www.orah.com /index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=13&Itemid=2   (269 words)

  
 Record Labels on the ARTISTdirect Network
Record label biography of the now defunct label from 1986-1990.
MAS Records is here for all musical talent, regardless of age or experience.
Matchbox recordings are an independent record label specialising in new music compilations.
www.artistdirect.com /music/ubl/resource/0,,320-J-1:UK-2-1,00.html   (324 words)

  
 Furdlog » 2003 » November   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Of course, we mustn’t stick with the fiction that this is really about “respecting the requests” of the recording artists.
I can’t help but notice that this change seems to be working to the advantage of big record companies.
Where once their control of big studios gave them an economic advantage, now record companies’ chief asset is their control of distribution and marketing channels.
msl1.mit.edu /furdlog/?m=20031120   (1119 words)

  
 Loca - OneLook Dictionary Search
Loca : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
LOCA : Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition [home, info]
Phrases that include Loca: joanna la loca, kama loca, livin da vida loca, loca records, mi vida loca tattoo
www.onelook.com /?w=Loca   (128 words)

  
 Tower Records - Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
"Livin' La Vida Loca" won the 2000 Billboard Latin Music Award for Latin Pop Track of the Year and was nominated for Hot Latin Track of the Year.
"Livin' La Vida Loca (Spanish version)" was nominated for the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Record Of The Year and "Bella (She's All I Ever Had)" was nominated for the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Perforance.
A track like "Livin' La Vida Loca" makes a seamless amalgam of Pan-Americana in which surf guitars, electronica, and Mariachi horns rock together in fine form, and its Spanglish chorus feels as ordinary a pop hook as any other.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1520378   (482 words)

  
 Creative Commons, Copyright & The Independent Musician
In law, copyright owners are granted exclusive rights in the owned work for a set period of time (50 years in the case of sound recordings in the EU), and these include the right to copy the owned work and to issue copies to the public.
Brighton-based electronica label Loca Records has adopted an alternative approach to copyright from the outset.
For their fifth release, Loca moved from the GPL to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Open Audio licence.
www.soundonsound.com /sos/jan05/articles/creative.htm   (4218 words)

  
 Downtempo links
Crowd Control Records is an independent record label that specializes in hip hop, nu jazz and downtempo.
Loca Records is an electronica and post-rock record label.
Milwaukee-based record label and your source for all things wobbly.
easybe.com /record_labels_downtempo.html   (375 words)

  
 Vida Loca Records
>> VIDA LOCA records got her own fuckin' fagspace!
Vida Loca Records is a brand new yet old fashioned queerious punk girl label from Roma, Italy.
I dischi Vida Loca sono anche distribuiti da Goodfellas e li puoi trovare a Roma da Hellnation e Soul Food, a Milano da Riot e a Parma da Rockin'Bones.
www.vidalocarecords.com   (215 words)

  
 Vida Loca presenta > Queer Jubilee
VIDA LOCA RECORDS + PHAG OFF + HUP CONCERTI presentano...
+ Tavolo di fanzines, dischi ed autoproduzioni queer punk a cura di Vida Loca Records.
Vida Loca - Casella Postale 17033 - 00189 Roma Grottarossa - Italy
vidalocarecords.com /booking/queerjubilee.htm   (704 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: Remix Culture Panel 1
Theory, ideas, strategies and tactics, from releasing, sharing and remixing work - plus discussions of how to make new commons-based models function alongside the present music-industry type model and the increasingly restrictive legal environment.
PANEL 1: Creative Commons record labels: David Meme (Loca Records), Neil Leyton (Fading Ways) and John Buckman (Magnatune)
Supported by Loca Records, Fading Ways and Magnatune.
www.archive.org /details/REMIXCULTUREpanel1   (105 words)

  
 Search Results for “records” : MyFonts
As well as creating custom type and lettering Marcus McCallion is Art Director of the open source record label LOCA Records and TypoGraphic designer for Jon...
Gerard Huerta was educated at Art Center College of Design and began his professional career in 1974 as an album cover designer with CBS Records in New York.
Born and trained in the UK, Westwood worked for EMI Records and Saatchi & Saatchi before relocating to Southern California, and starting his own illustration studio.
www.myfonts.com /search?search[text]=records   (260 words)

  
 boycott-riaa.com - Article: Record Label Sings New Tune
Some people claim record labels start stealing copyrights from artists as soon as the ink on the recording contract is laid down.
But, in the United Kingdom, a record label is going the other way.
It's also not the only label experimenting with new forms of music distribution and collaboration.
www.boycott-riaa.com /article/9160   (1060 words)

  
 LUIS JUNIOR
On March 2003 he founds his own record label, Abysoma Records, presenting worldwide electronica music productions currently produced in Spain.
In 1993, Luis Junior present along with Carlos Pulido, what was later a revolution for the time, producing and presenting a radio program of 8 hours daily, based on dance music.
un programa que esta batiendo records de audiencia.
www.luisjunior.com /allsite.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Web Design and Development in Vancouver BC - Loca Lola Design Team, Inc.
Loca Lola developed their website and developed a new custom online application to watch their film work online.
However, Arnaud Icard is such an accomplished web designer, programmer and art director, we had to profile him.
Arnaud has created designs for Volkswagen, Warp Records and Quentin Tarantino's movie Kill Bill Vol.1 to mention just a few.
www.localoladesignteam.com   (253 words)

  
 FC4S - Free Culture UK
Build a relationship with organisations who collaborate on this project (so far Fading Ways Records, LOCA Records and the National Union of Students).
Just asking for samples may make it easier to get the material, and be easier (or perhaps harder?) to remix well.
We can of course go through people like LOCA, Magnatune, etc. but it would be good if we could get some bigger names.
www.freeculture.org.uk /FC4S   (568 words)

  
 DeWitt Clinton » 2003 » December
Loca’s plan is intriguing, as they will offer the […]
HispanicBusiness.Com is running a news brief on Clear Channel’s launch of a new Spanish language radio station in Arizona.
At 97.1 FM, the new station, Que Suave (yes, Clear Channel is actually calling it that), will feature such artists as Ricky Martin and Shakira (both on Sony Records).
blog.unto.net /2003/12   (556 words)

  
 LOCA - The DJ List
You are in: Home → The DJ List → LOCA
The DJ List was reset for 2007 on January 1st.
Note that it requires an additional registration to join.
www.thedjlist.com /djs/LOCA   (52 words)

  
 Loca Records - Netlabel Catalogue
Loca Records is an independent electronica and post rock record label based in Brighton, UK.
All the music, artwork and videos are released under Copyleft licenses and distributed physically on Vinyl, CD, and cassette.
This page was last modified 10:54, 18 Sep 2006.
www.phlow.de /netlabels/index.php/Loca_Records   (107 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/crazi169
PHEARLESS RECORDS~~ I am the events director for Phearless Records in AZ.
I jus wanna take a second and thank everyone who has been around to support PHEARLESS RECORDS and the PHEARLESS movement.
Im alwayz lookin for new local artists to put on our shows, if you wanna be apart of our shows, jus hit me up and I'll get you right back.
www.myspace.com /crazi169   (1079 words)

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