Charity Oxfam is launching a music download service to help raise money to fight poverty around the world. The charity is launching the big noise music website on Wednesday and will offer 300,000 soundtracks for download. The service is backed by the OD2 music service and will be available across
| Oxfam is launching a music download service to help raise money to fight poverty around the world. The charity is backing the Big Noise Music website, which launches on Tracks will cost between 75p and 99p, with 10p going to Oxfam. Acts featured include Coldplay and George Michael. "Artists will see their music help some of the poorest people in the world," Oxfam's Adrian Lovett said. The service - backed by digital music firm OD2 - will be available across Europe, although songs will be priced in sterling. Competition is increasing in the digital music market, with Napster launching its UK service last week, and Apple's iTunes service is expected to open its doors to European users soon. As well as Oxfam's service, OD2 also powers download services offered by Coca-Cola, HMV, Tiscali, Virgin, Ministry of Sound, Wanadoo and MSN. |
The full story was taken from the BBC . At least this is a start of services which people can feel there money is worthy to spend on, giving to charity while receiving music, though I do feel 10pence to oxfam is pretty low maybe 25p or more would have been better. At least users of the service know that the money they spend isn't going back to the greedy music industry and that its going to help the poor and sick around the world. If only big music corporations started giving more to charity maybe people would actually buy music cd's at the current prices.
Source: BBC
(300,000 Sountracks that's a lot of Movie Scores.)
There shouldn't be any royalties as this a charity organisation........Top news
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