On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record
a complete
performance of this work and release the music files, as well as proofread
digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through
Kickstarter.
Another way to look at this project is: a small team pledged for $30k, got
$44k thanks to hundreds of backers, and delivered what they promised, all
this requiring (as far as I know) exactly zero resources from any Wikimedia
organization.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opengoldberg/open-well-tempered-clavie…
(tagged as #classical-music)
Crowdfunding is on the rise, and tags in this field are important because
once you fund a project about #tag you get recommendations for more #tag
projects. Maybe we could partner with Creative Commons and friends to
request Kickstarter and the other platforms to include a #freeknowledge
tag, or a similar alternative (this example could have also been
#public-domain)? Or maybe someone is already working on this?