Moby is one of my all time favorite musicians/D.J’s and his blog has been a regular in my feed reader ever since I found out he had one. So what does this have to do with the Internet and technology?

Simple .. he gets the whole idea of make art and music accessible to everyone without making you feel like a criminal.

In a post today he announced that the moby.com site was in the process of being updated and as a part of that update he was opening up a new section called film music. In this section he making available a set of 60 tracks of music for download

and here’s the biggie(well, at least i think so)…there’s a new part of moby.com called ‘film music’. it’s essentially a function that allows independent and non-profit filmmakers to download and use my music for free. we’re starting with about 60 pieces of eclectic, unreleased, film music, but over-time i’ll continue to update it and add more music.
these 60 pieces of music can be downloaded and used for free by student filmmakers and indie filmmakers and, basically, anyone making a non-commercial* film, be it 2 minutes long or 400 minutes long.

The only caveat being that the music must be used in the following manner

if you’re a filmmaker(or are in need of free music for a non-commercial film or video)you can sign up and download and use this music for free.
i have a lot of friends in the independent film world, and their biggest complaint is that it’s either expensive or onerous to license music for their films.
so that’s why i’m making a lot of my music available for free use for non-profit, independent films.

He goes to add that even if your work of art goes onto make humongous piles of cash you can still use the music as long as you get a commercial licence from him; which he says won’t be onerous or a wallet killer. then to boot that money will be donated to charity.

Way to go moby .. this alone would make me buy more your music if the wallet would allow it .. regardless though it has made me an even bigger fan.

To bad the rest of the media industry can’t get it the way moby has.