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	buckman's magnatune blog
		By the end of the workshop (which was completely full), music licensing had hopefully been reduced from a brain surgery-like prospect to that of an outpatient procedure.
		Of course, at Magnatune, music licensing is so painless, that it's more comparable to a spa treatment of some kind.
		I've super-excited to announce that Nikolaj (from Copenhagen, Denmark) will be working for Magnatune, with his initial focus being version two of Amarok, esp the ports to Windows and Mac, and Magnatune integration, especially some of the new service-offering ideas we're bouncing around Magnatune.
	blogs.magnatune.com (1998 words)

	PR Leap: REVOLUTIONARY E-LABEL MAGNATUNE INVITES CUSTOMERS TO FILL THEIR I-PODS
		Magnatune’s I-Pod campaign is another step in their ongoing quest to restore control of the music industry to the fans and artists who created it.
		Magnatune’s podcasts are designed to provide an option to antiquated mainstream radio by allowing listeners direct access to underground music, complete with a DJ but free from fluff.
		Magnatune is as much a movement as it is a business and they have quickly become the most customer friendly music store anywhere.
	www.prleap.com /pr/19307 (530 words)

	Magnatune - Creative Commons
		Magnatune provides “Internet music without the guilt.” Based in Berkeley, California, Magnatune is a record label with a 21st Century business model, offering consumers a unique mix of free and paid music.
		We recently spoke with Magnatune founder and CEO John Buckman about the music company’s progress and plans, and how going “some rights reserved” can boost the bottom line.
		Most visitors see Magnatune in a very simple light: they can listen to our music, the selection is really good, and the product (when you buy) is of high quality.
	creativecommons.org /audio/magnatune (1363 words)

	Interview: John Buckman, Founder of Magnatune Records - OSNews.com
		Magnatune is the non-evil record label who gives away 128 kbps mp3s of all their artist's songs for free.
		John Buckman: I love it, there's no better way to create an audience for Magnatune than to have the majors destroy any good feelings in their audience and to be so thoroughly disgusted with the majors that people will do anything not to give them any money.
		And frankly, Magnatune is radical enough that people who want to sign up with it want nothing to do with the traditional evil music business.
	www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=15737 (1193 words)

	iCommons » Blog Archive » Dinner with Magnatune’s John Buckman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Magnatune is an online record label, launched in 2004.
		In my quest to find out the answer to this question, I met with John Buckman, CEO and founder of Magnatune for dinner at a Zen-styled restaurant in the Akasaka area, in the heart of Tokyo.
		My intention is for all musicians who have signed with Magnatune, to make at least $3 000 a year, which is the smallest amount an artists would need to produce another album.
	icommons.org /2006/10/16/dinner-with-magnatunes-john-buckman (1151 words)

	OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Magnatune
		Magnatune has significantly helped in the sale and distribution of hundreds of artists, whose music would otherwise be heard and purchased with far less frequency, by providing free sampling methods and genre specificity options.
		Therefore, sales via Magnatune and its artists are presently far lower than those of RIAA recording labels.
		He tells us that Magnatune is to introduce a new service and is going to use a new P2P network (LimeClick) to release a Weedshare version of the collection.
	www.openbusiness.cc /2005/09/26/magnatune (738 words)

	Magnatune \| Potion Factory
		Magnatune is a record label with the motto We Are Not Evil.
		Magnatune is an underdog in the music industry, but it is a company that totally gets the changes coming with the digital era and this podcast loving attitude is just one example of many.
		He explains in depth how Magnatune is different from traditional labels and gives us his insight on how the music industry is changing in this digital era.
	www.potionfactory.com /blog/2006/01/29/magnatune (429 words)

	Magnatune, an Open Music Experiment
		It was born out of personal experiences from my wife releasing her CD on a British record label and some observations I'd gathered about the music industry.
		Magnatune was born out of personal experiences from my wife releasing her CD on a British record label and some observations I'd gathered about the music industry.
		As I'm writing this article, Magnatune has about 60 musicians and 130 albums and is growing by about 15 musicians and 30 albums per month.
	www.linuxjournal.com /node/7220/print (2646 words)

	PR Leap: Magnatune Records Wants You!
		In addition, Magnatune is the first label to include “limited rights” with the music they sell, actually allowing people to work with raw tracks, samples, and to change the recordings for personal use.
		http://magnatune.com Magnatune has had great success in promoting their ambient and new age artists, but they have a growing list of titles ranging from acoustic blues to classical and with more and more submissions coming in every month, Buckman hopes that they will soon be able to represent the best from every genre.
		Though Magnatune has received nothing to praise from customers and press alike, the key to their success is participation, and Buckman hopes that musicians everywhere will consider submitting their music to Magnatune.
	www.prleap.com /pr/17641 (777 words)

	Magnatune’s Answer to the Music Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Magnatune, founded by John Buckman in 2003, is a music label with an associated website.
		Magnatune does offer several additional advantages, but I suspect most people base their choice based on what they like and price primairly.
		Magnatune seems to be aimed at a rather middle-aged, comfortably salaried type person while Beatpick has a more youthful and ‘designy’ appeal (i.e.
	www.techcrunch.com /2005/12/28/magnatunes-answer-to-the-music-problem (1721 words)

	San Francisco Public Relations
		Magnatune, an independent, online record label that hand selects its own artists, sells its catalog of music through online downloads and print-on-demand CDs and licenses music for commercial and non-commercial use.
		Based on the principle that “we are not evil,” the company offers fair-trade music to consumers by equally sharing all revenue from the sale of albums with artists and allowing artists to retain full rights to their music.
		Magnatune relied on Landis Communications Inc. (LCI) for innovative public relations strategies to distance TunePlug from an increasingly-large field of digital music players and, in promoting TunePlug, to distance Magnatune from larger, more famous online music services.
	www.landispr.com /clients/casehistories/magnatune.htm (205 words)

	We discover a record label that isn't evil
		Magnatune's 170-plus artists enjoy non-exclusive licensing that gives them 50 percent of gross sales income, and freedom to sell their music elsewhere.
		If you mean sharing of Magnatune's music, sharing mostly helps us, as we represent relatively unknown artists and have small marketing budgets, and are not engaged in the business of "star-making" which is the major label's main contribution.
		Also, Magnatune mostly represents "grown up" music, i.e., not what is hip in the 12 to 18 year old crowd (and not single-oriented), but genres like Classical, Heavy Metal, Electronica, World.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=19868 (1117 words)

	Techcrunch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Today was the first time I heard about Magnatune (thanks to Ajay Juneja), but I agree entirely with their business philosophy.
		Magnatune doesn’t take on any artist that applies - only about 2.5% of those that apply are accepted according to an article by Stereophile.
		Magnatune also gives the buyer the legal right to share the music with three other people, even allowing those people to download the music directly from Magnatune (a great viral marketing feature, by the way).
	www.techcrunch.com /tag/Magnatune (335 words)

	Virtual Turntable » Magnatune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is how I want it and why I’m involved in the Magnatune Remixed project: to help support the business folks and artists who have acknowledged the new fundamental truth of the music industry that “giving away your music is good for your career.” That’s my agenda and I’m sticking to it.
		Most folks associated with CC, Magnatune and ccMixter have been quick to acknowledge me as a ‘friend’ and I’m starting to realize the proper space-iquette is to ack-back with a “thank you” message.
		Magnatune has re-calibrated its sampling royalties payments which means a lot less money for me (whatever) and whole lot more for those artists I sampled (wahoo).
	virtualturntable.fourstones.net /tags/magnatune (2160 words)

	Magnatune Integration
		The simplest to do is probably just to add all magnatune's tracks to the database, using their http://....mp3 thingy, using correct tags.
		I have not been on Magnatune for awhile, so this was a good reminder to go back for a visit.
		Magnatune integration is a good thing(tm), but why isn't it a compile time option like amazon, musicbrainz, media devices, etc? Sure you can disable it in the menu but it still takes extra compile time and resources.
	amarok.kde.org /forum/index.php?topic=12373.msg15160 (1297 words)

	OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Magnatune Interview
		It’s the same thing with shoplifting: stores tolerate a certain amount of it, not resorting to body searches of their shop visitors, but at the same time an electronic theft detector is a reasonable compromise for a shop.
		The same applies to Magnatune: we try to strike a balance between letting the honest people proceed unimpeded, and slightly frustrating the moochers so that they go elsewhere.
		A recent example of this would be the 5 second “you just heard…” voices we’ve added to the music that’s freely heard on magnatune: it’s helpful to know what was played, but it also means the music isn’t a good substitute for paid, dj-free music.
	www.openbusiness.cc /2005/11/08/magnatune-interview (882 words)

	USATODAY.com - Apple's iTunes might not be only answer to ending piracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Magnatune was launched in May by John Buckman, who is otherwise CEO of e-mail software company Lyris.
		Magnatune is trying something a little different, and it includes playing on a buyer's conscience.
		Magnatune is taking advantage of this zeitgeist with a certain glee.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2004-01-20-piracy_x.htm (1101 words)

	Stereophile: Magnatune Offers High-Quality Downloads
		Magnatune and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are currently assessing the orchestra's 30 years of concert recordings, releasing music for download in three-album series every three months.
		Magnatune bases its choices of what to release partly on sound quality—recordings must be sonically competitive with major-label offerings.
		Magnatune keeps the quality of its music high—of the 400 artists who submit recordings to the company each month, only 10 are accepted.
	www.stereophile.com /news/1205magnatune (774 words)

	Magnatune Embraces Podcasting
		Podcasts are actually one of the key reasons Magnatune adopted the CC license, as a way go get our music heard and partner with alternative distribution mechanisms.
		Since the musician's goal is to be heard, to gain an audience, and eventually find buyers for their music, the CC license is a great, free, low-effort way to achieve those goals.
		Really, if there's any worry that the podcast might be a derivative work, the podcaster can avoid any worry and simply license the new work under the by-nc-sa CC license, and there are no issues.
	www.podcastingnews.com /articles/Magnatune_Embraces_Podcas.html (1139 words)

	redhat.com \| Interview with John Buckman
		With Magnatune, I wanted to find a business model where interesting music could survive and prosper, which meant that the musician gets paid, the record company survives, and consumers pay an affordable price for the music they love.
		Magnatune does the same with music: we pick the best music, and package it into a web site where anyone can listen to all our music before they buy, and besides getting unusual and excellent music, they get a copyright-protection-free full-quality (WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG) download.
		Magnatune is 20 years of open source lessons, applied to the music business.
	www.redhat.com /magazine/006apr05/features/buckman (1394 words)

	Magnatune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magnatune is a small Berkeley, California–based independent record label, founded in spring 2003 by John Buckman, then-CEO of e-mail software company Lyris.
		Magnatune makes non-exclusive agreements with artists, and gives them fifty percent of any proceeds from online sales or licensing.
		Even though using liberal licensing is not a new idea in itself, Magnatune is one of the first and most visible companies to try to build a business in music around this idea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magnatune (389 words)

	Weedshare & Magnatune announce distribution partnership \| MetaFilter
		December 13, 2005 3:03 PM Below is a press release announcing a partnership between Weedshare and Magnatune.
		Magnatune has netlabel-quality music they expect you to pay for.
		fleetmouse: I would say MagnaTune's catalog is slightly better than the average internet label simply because it is smaller and they are more selective in their process.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/47577 (952 words)

	PRN Wire: Magnatune Sticks IT To The Record Industry
		Magnatune’s tagline, “We Are Not Evil,” pretty much sums up their philosophy and their business strategy, though record company executives will not see it that way.
		Currently, the word on Magnatune is spreading fast and they have a solid reputation in the underground music industry.
		Magnatune has had great success in promoting their ambient and new age artists, but they have a growing list of titles ranging from acoustic blues to classical and with more and more submissions coming in every month, Buckman hopes that they will soon be able to represent the best from every genre.
	www.pressreleasenetwork.com /newsroom/news_view.phtml?news_id=1481 (1082 words)

	IT Conversations: John Buckman
		John Buckman is the founder of Magnatune Records, an online record label with the slogan "We Are Not Evil." As a company, Magnatune has embraced Creative Commons licensing, internet streaming and distribution of music, and introduced innovations such as customer-chosen pricing for albums.
		He founded Magnatune out of frustration with his wife's experiences with the major labels of the record industry.
		In this interview with host Dave Slusher John discusses his motivations in forming Magnatune, his experiences and surprises in the first years of operation, why classical music is their highest-selling genre, the potentials for online distribution of music, where the major music labels have gone wrong and much more.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail434.html (205 words)

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