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A first on the show, on this episode we dive into business models! Yes, you read it right: business models for music licensed under Creative Commons. For that, I talked to Hessel van Oorschot, co-founder and CEO at Tribe of Noise, a platform focused on creating fair and sustainable business opportunities for independent musicians. They launched back in 2008 in the Netherlands. Now, they provide a…

Welcome to a brand new season of White Market Podcast and, of course, to 2020! As you may have expected, in this season we will be talking a lot about music but we couldn’t really step into a new year without celebrating Public Domain Day. For our comeback, we're bringing you an interview with Anna Mazgal from the Communia Association, one of the policy organizations that has been working most…

This season on White Market Podcast: Prepare for a lot of talk about Creative Commons music. We will talk about licenses, about business models, about resilience and about the love that goes into sharing music with others. In the first few episodes, there will be interviews with: Hessel van Oorschot from Tribe of Noise, a platform focused on creating fair and sustainable business opportunities for…

In the past few years, there has been a lot of work put into trying to make the show available in as many places as possible. Now, we found our own spot at one of the world's largest audio streaming platforms. You can now follow White Market Podcast on Spotify. If you're not a Spotify fan/user, you can also find us in a variety of other platforms, such as iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and…

What started as an effort to harmonize copyright across European countries, making it easier for users to navigate through such complex regulations, has now turned into a whirlwind and, if approved, may very well break the internet as we know it, while putting our civil liberties at stake. As you know, White Market Podcast has been reporting on alternative copyright licensing models and…

Free Music Archive is closing down. One of the world's largest archives of free music will no longer be after this week and WMP is grieving. A couple of weeks ago, I attended a Creative Commons event in Lisbon where I had the chance to reflect on the importance of the licenses for my podcast (and for my life, actually). Before me, Monster Jinx's boss, Darksunn, went on the stage to share his…

I am not sure how it got to this, but White Market Podcast is now a 10 year-old project. That means a full decade of celebrating the best in free music and free culture. Originally in Portuguese as Programa Marca Branca, the first episode aired back in March 2008. More than a 100 sessions later, I can tell you that it had ups and downs like any other long-term relationship, but that the overall…

MozFest 2017 schedule is out now! In case you missed it, White Market Podcast will be hosting a session under the Open Innovation banner.  This is happening as part of the Mozilla Open Leadership program, for which WMP has been selected to as a project. “Open Radio, Open Minds” is scheduled for Saturday 28th at 4:30pm, with a showcase on Sunday at the Gallery at the same time. Below you can find…