Magnatune, founded by John Buckman in 2003, is a music label with an associated website. Today was the first time I heard about Magnatune (thanks to Ajay Juneja), but I agree entirely with their ...

On April 2, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs along with EMI CEO Eric Nicoli announced DRM-free downloads at a new cost of $1.29 US—a fee that's $.30 more than the current DRM-formatted music. Shouldn't ...

Four years ago, inspired by the open-source movement, I launched Magnatune - an internet-based record label based on a model I called "open music". At the time, the major-label music industry was on a ...

Magnatune is an Internet music record label. 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 ...

BERKELEY – John Buckman does not consider himself a revolutionary. Splitting all album and licensing sales with musicians 50-50, letting artists maintain the rights to their music, and allowing ...

Browsing other genres is recommended, since everything from instrumental hard rock to unusual blends of ethnic styles and instruments can be found. Imagine wrecking your new Ferrari, but meeting your ...

When people think "open source," they usually think software. John Buckman, however, has been applying some of the open source philosophy to music using the Creative Commons licenses, and it seems to ...

John Buckman never much cared for the music business. He’d always found it corrupt and unfair to artists. But now it was personal. Jan Hanford, Buckman’s wife and a composer of electronic music, had ...

As the major record companies scramble to put a lid on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like Morpheus and Kazaa, an upstart California record label is trying to revolutionize the industry by taking ...