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Originally Posted by chrisso  But 'mashups' and 'remixes' aren't completely original anyway. They usually include other people's ideas/material.
How about you show us some communities of people who only survive by writing their own songs..... and yet give them away freely. |
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Browse away. Lots of people listed there, and a
very incomplete list it is. I get a very large portion of my music from people like these folks as they tend to put much more effort into making their product valuable.
Ironically, in my experience, most of them tend to be living quite comfortably while similar artists who delve into the restrictive rights realm seem to be struggling more. Maybe my perception, but I don't place much value in it regardless. I rather just reward people for providing me with a quality product, however they do it.
That's just one example, there are many more in the music world. We can even step out of the box a bit.. for instance, think about software developers who make their product fully-functioning with no demo limitations, or even open source, and still make a living off it.