Open music

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Open Music is music that is shareable, available in "source code" form, allows derivative works and is free of cost for non-commercial use. It is the concept of "open source" computer software applied to music. Source - Magnatune.com Open Music is one of the general responses to the RIAA's and governmental actions against the music industry and its consumers.

"Open Music" can be considered a subset of "Free music". The differences of philosophy between advocates of "open source" and "free software" have not surfaced in the community of musicians contributing music to the copyleft commons. This may be due to the relatively recent emergence of copyleft music, as well as to the fact that software development generally involves much more collaboration and derivatization than does music production. It is not clear that open collaboration using copyleft licenses provides any significant advantages in music production, as open source advocates commonly argue is the case for software development.