What do you think about Filipino artists distributing music under Creative Commons licenses?
1mon 11d ago by reddthat.com/u/EmbarrassedBenefit3 in philippines
I'm happy at where OPM is right now. It's in a much better place than when I originally encountered it. I think a lot of it is because of the artists being able to distribute their work in streaming services without relying on record labels.
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I think the CC licensing would help the artist insulate themselves from market pressure and allow them to release songs that are more in line with their identity as artists. In a way, learn from some of what made recent K-Pop relatively less popular to Filipinos recently (trend hunting and catering to a big-spending Western audience, for example). Making the record labels have a lot of say can kill or mute what makes OPM special
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Sa tingin ko, yung gatekeeping ng record labels ang malaking dahilan kung bakit nagkaroon ng phase na ang OPM ay associated lang sa ballad covers, birit-artists, and novelty songs. Most people who don't like these genres would gravitate to foreign music. Kaya din sumikat ang K-Pop noong 2000s and 2010, dahil sa production values.
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CC licenses would explicitly encourage fan engagement like covers and use in remix culture
These are rare and outside of mainstream music, in that these artists choose to distribute their art under their own terms and minus the meddling that normally comes with commercial labels' executives who dictate the content and thus losing the original meaning and spirit of the work of music, as in the case of much of the 90s where executives found themselves scrambling to look for the next Eraserheads in the then-underground rock scene.