[keithpeter]

While we are sharing CC Music have a look at

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filt...

if your tastes extend to classical. Classical artists have it easier as they can release a sound recording of a particular performance under the CC licence and then release another recording commercially. Leon Fleisher springs to mind.

[jasonkostempski]

Why is that idea limited to Classical artists?

[wolfgke]

Because the composer/artist has to be dead for many years for the copyright to expire (in the United states 70 years after the death; cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries...).

[keithpeter]

It isn't, forgive my clumsy writing.

I think I wrote that because classical artists think in terms of performances of a score, and I perceive that pop/rock musicians think in terms of tunes that they have composed.