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Mikseri.net, a very succesful Finnish website to promote new artists and unknown talents has sprung many amateurs into the music industry in a way they could have only dreamt of. See it as the open source “Idols“. However, there’s something very wrong with the site and their logic how they function. They don’t promote CC-licensing at all.

Artists should naturally have a chance to license their music through CC-licenses and thus help spread the music. At the moment the only alternative (after a little detective work) for artists to license their music is the regular copyright law. If you try to grow your business and help the artists, let the music play! I mean they’re already doing it with embeddable music players. Where’s the logic in that?

Mikseri.net – you guys should meet Creative Commons and truly blow your business. You’re artificially limiting your business, because you’re stuck to the old ways of doing things. Innovate, live long and prosper!

My friend and partner, Hannu Ripatti, has been writing a blog for sometime now, called Garbage is an analog concept. He has a lot of good entries there already, but I especially like the “Dinner in the cave“.

He writes about his blog (which I agree with 100%):

I believe that the ongoing digital revolution is going to be one of the landmark moments in history. It will not only change the way we do business and communicate. It will change every aspect of society from education to privacy and beyond. There will be many challenges, both technical and intellectual, but in the end I truly believe that we will all benefit from the revolution.