Found this interesting thought on TechDirt's blog: "
Kevin H alerts us to the news that electronic music/DJ artist The Polish Ambassador recently began musing on Facebook about
what it would mean to be an "open source" musician:
According to Wikipedia, "Open Source" is a philosophy that promotes free
redistribution and access to a project's design and implementation
details. The end user who edits the program is then allowed to send
his/her input to the author for possible inclusion in the project.
If an artist like The Polish Ambassador were to become an open sourced
project what might that look like? Is there room/possibility for
art/music/brands to become open source? Is it already happening? Could
this ideology serve some purpose? Maybe a way to get other people's
ideas out there? A way to collaborate? A way to merge efforts of like
minded folks? A way to create art from art? A way to generate $ for end
users/charities? It seems to me the possibilities are endless. We all
use open sourced software every day. Linux, Firefox, etc, but I haven't
heard of many artists that when I think of their name, I also think, "O
yea, she/he's that... read on."
