Museum music series of podcasts uses Creative Commons licenses
Indeed, another story from NECN, from this morning.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum here in Boston has taken it’s years of concert recordings and begun making them available via podcast on their site. Currently, there is no obvious link to the podcast from the home page, but if you go to the Music section, you’ll see links to it.
According to the news bit, the museum is working with the Berkman Center at Harvard to provide Creative Commons licenses for all of the music, so that people can use them for “creative works.” A look at the actual license shows that the music is essentially shareable and podsafe, but a “No Derivative Works” clause applies, so no sampling, remixing, or changing.
Listeners can download what’s already available, or subscribe to the feed to receive the twice-monthly updates. Liberated Syndication (libsyn) is the host for the podcast.
This is a perfect example of a podcast that libraries can somehow make available to their patrons, or even podsafe music for library podcasts. Other museums also have podcasts (it’s not just kids playing music or talking about their lives, not that that itself doesn’t have some value), and I’m thinking of doing a roundup for the PLA Blog. If you’ve got any recommendations for museum podcasts, gimme a shout.
[Interesting side note: The newscasters on NECN had no idea that iPods have moved into the video age, one mentioning that "I just don't have all of the *gadgets*."]
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