Eric Steuer and Cameron Parkins, staff of Creative Commons, has now just published the interview released for the official Creative Commons!

I would like to thank them for the opportuny given to OnClassical. I am really proud to be in such an important section that they call "The Commoners".

The interview's link:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7866
http://creativecommons.org/commoners/

Here a pic of the today Creative Commons home page!

Two different recordings of the same event!

The year 2005 saw the beginning of a very fruitful collaboration with Gianluca Luisi: the fruits being 5 albums which were completed at Turin on the 12th July 2007.

Keep you eyes open for the imminent release of: Partitas by Bach (2 CDs), Chopin's 4 Scherzos and a Piano Recital containing virtuoso transcriptions. Mr. Luisi recently recorded the complete Well Tempered Clavier (4 CDs) and new albums are in program under the OnClassical label.

Now you may enjoy the first CD of the Italian pianist: Mozart's Late Sonatas in (1) (2) different versions reproducing the same recording but using different microphones (AKG mics. vs Neumann mics.)!

At http://classicaland.com/texts/why-buy-sheet-music.asp we published the following article, regarding sheet music e-books at classicaland.com, maybe of your interest.

Why buy sheet music when we offer you the same for free?

Use your computer to begin creating an important library of music books. You can save 99% of your money to do this, and avoid the encumbrance of dusty books or new improvised editions. You can print and distribute all the copies you want, and perform the pieces in public, all without violating authors' rights, or fear of doing anything illegal.

CLASSICAland is a collection of sheet music books in digital format (e-books). The collection includes plenty of integral e-music books which you can download to your computer to use when and how you need. With CLASSICAland e-books:

• you can have a good collection of the main classical music works (for piano)
• you can have all the e-books of sheet music perfectly ordered on your computer
• you can download and redownload music e-books whenever you wish from the classicaland.com website (no daily limits)
• you can print only the piece you're studying so as not to waste paper and ink, or space
• you can print as many copies as you wish of the music, give them to your scholars, friends, colleagues...
• you can have at your disposal historical and trustworthy musical editions (not new improvised editions which often contain many errors)

Moreover:

• you do not have to pay authors' rights to anyone if you desire to perform any of the pieces publicly
• you save lots and lots of money by not buying sheet music books (read more) - and it helps to save trees
• you are acting in a perfectly legal way according to modern day technological methods

Start now to download quality sheet music books for free in the measure of 2 files/day or subscribe for only 15 euros (no monthly or annual automatic renewal) to start downloading sheet music e-books with no time limits and help us in maintaining this important resource! Read all other many and many benefits to become member of our site!

Please also read:
how to download files and how much you'll effectively pay the collection...

So what are you waiting for? Do you want to keep on throwing away your money to buy the same books for absurd prices?

Here a (partial) list of weblogs and websites I found that talk about us. This is very impressive considering that we are pratically doing what we do since July 2007. Thank you to all!

Other important articles or posts about us may be found at: http://onclassical.com/texts/press.htm (the list is not updated yet).

Blogs talkings about us:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7866
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7614
http://www.creativecommons.jp/world/2007/08/onclassical_1.html
http://creativecommons.org.yu/
http://www.theeyes.org/toccare/nuove_idee/onclassical
http://www.classicistranieri.com/dblog/storico.asp?s=OnClassical
http://jpllmusicnews.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/onclassical-creative-commons/
http://ww4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/flickrwrappr/photos/OnClassical
http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/753
http://mrkai.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/onclassical/
http://musicaclassica.biblio-net.com/artman/publish/news1743.shtml
http://haraita9283.blog98.fc2.com/blog-entry-138.html
http://keypivot.com/piu-di-70-000-brani-di-musica
http://stingyscholar.blogspot.com/search?q=onclassical
http://www.pitjamajusto.com/blog.php
http://www.frontieredigitali.net/index.php/Musica

Blogs / Sites quoting us:
http://divadianes.blogspot.com/2007/09/nothing-much.html
http://curealte.netsons.org/
http://camellex.blogspot.com/
http://maine.seroni.info/maine/estate-maine-real-waterfront/51.html
http://www.pmlay.com/index.php?go=neue-seiten
http://www.ilgratis.it/downloads/task,cat_view/gid,35/limit,5/limitstart,0/order,hits/dir,DESC/
http://www.indiebible.com/icb/feb2005.shtml
http://www.jeremydebeer.ca/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,52/func,view/id,434/catid,12/

Very interesting is what these last say:

As a response to your message inciting users to look for new alternatives I searched the web to look for legal ways to gain copyright protection and at the same time contribute to the free culture in the digital world.

In class we talked about Lessing and his book "free culture". Lawrence Lessing is also the creator of a non-profit organization called Creative Commons. Creative Commons offers really liberal copyright agreements that permits artists to license their works for free use. The artist then uses the creative commons portal as a database to post their works. The database contains movies, music, soundtracks and written articles.

At first this idea may sound a bit obscure, but sites like Wikipedia (a non-legal source) use creative commons licensing agreements for the authors that post the information. Wikipedia has become for many users an alternative for acquiring general background info (though sometimes unreliable) on a great deal of topics.

Another example of the Creative Commons agreements put to use is the online record label OnClassical. This record label share their profit shares 50/50 with their artists and, at the same time, they enjoy international recognition for the quality of its artists and performers.

I invite all of you to check out more info on the topic on the website creativecommons.com.

It's very important how they compare us to WikiPedia and Creative Commons directly!

About the Festival della Creatività:
http://eldino.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/it-festival-della-creativita-2007-alcuni-dovuti-ringraziamenti/
http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it/index.jsp?id=126476&id_sottocategoria=1418&language=it
http://eldino.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/it-festival-della-creativita-2007-alcuni-dovuti-ringraziamenti/
http://www.firenze.net/turismo/cm_dettaglio.wbs?id_contenuto=331019&id_categorie=92
http://quifree.it/portico/export/quifree/sito-quifree/MenuPrincipale_quifree/parlanodinoi/index.html
http://quifree.it/incms/export/quifree/sito-quifree/Contenuti_quifree/altriappuntamenti/visualizza_asset.html_204500709.html
http://www.italianinnovation.it/html/modules/article/view.article.php?10003/c0
http://www.italianinnovation.it/html/modules/article/transfer.php?c1/10003/pdf
http://www.women.it/cms/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=3267
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Firenze_-_Festival_della_creativita_2007/programma_quifree
http://eldino.wordpress.com/category/daap-party-live/
http://www.ideeinvacanza.it/guide/L2/INVINVL20030-divertirsi.pdf
http://www.cartellone.emr.it/wcm/cartellone/pagine/teatro_prosa/volume/interno.pdf
http://romaspettacoli.blog.excite.it/archive/day/20071110
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Firenze_-_Festival_della_creativita_2007/programma_quifree
http://www.lici.it/sites/lici.it/files/ProgrammaSessioniParallele_23sett07.pdf
http://www.beatricemagnolfi.it/wp/wp-content/uploads/ProgrammaQuiFree.pdf

WikiPedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnClassical
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
Other at WikiPedia / en: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=onclassical&fulltext=Search

Other (main) websites:
http://www.creativecommons.it/Audio
http://www.mostly4macs.co.uk/links/links_musicdown_UK.html
http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it/index.jsp?id=126476&id_sottocategoria=1418&language=it
http://www.organisti.it/notiziario_febbraio_05.htm
... and many others ...

Web researches / online reviews:
http://creativecommons.org.yu/files/cc_brosura.pdf
http://www.hackmeeting.org/materiali/CC.pdf
http://www.dark-legion.org/it/GNU%20LGPL
http://www.autistici.org/kraken/doc/cc_creativita_musicale.ppt

Recent posts:
http://www.livingos.com/2007/12/17/creative-open-source-audio/
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1242
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8022
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8110 (about kunstderfuge.com)