IMD Forum for 1/17/07: John Buckman
Speaker: John Buckman
Time: Wednesday, January 17, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC),
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)
Wikipedia bio:
John Buckman is the founder of Magnatune, the largest online store/recording company/media website that uses Creative Commons as license. Magnatune selects its own artists, sells its catalog of music through online downloads and print-on-demand CDs and licenses music for commercial and non-commercial use. Frustrated by the music industry's unfair treatment of artists, Buckman decided to create Magnatune as an artist-friendly record label that shares profits equally with musicians and allows them to retain the rights to their work. Magnatune has successfully used Creative Commons and open source principles to establish a new kind of business model for the music industry.
In November 2006, Buckman was elected to the Board of Directors of the Creative Commons. His most recent project is BookMooch, a non-profit online used book exchange service. Previously he was the founder (with his wife Jan Hanford) and CEO of Lyris Technologies.
View his Magnatune blog here and hear an online interview here.