Creative Commons has posted a Request For Proposals to take over its music remix community, ccMixter, home to a thriving community of remixers and host of some high profile remix contests over the last few years.

One of the bastions of open music - perhaps even the place where ‘open music’ will eventually be said to have been coined (perhaps not) - is up for grabs, and what an awesome place it is.

Cheers for Creative Commons bringing nuances to the music table, and for their ccHost software - let’s just hope the CC board are careful handing this site over to some crazy commercial scheme.

Although the RFP states ‘nothing will (should) change’, in an evil conservative commercial kind of way … there is always a fear from a user and artist perspective that something could go wrong. Lost Audio can only comment. Fuck that. The artists and the community would just leave and pop up another place.

This is one noteworthy community. It’s not just friends picking each others belly button… this is real interaction based on real interest; music communicating with music. One virtual meta discussion that doesn’t bore you to death.

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