How about making music software that is free for non-commercial use, and the copyright protection applies via copyrighting saved work for commercial use, which the rights would be released for sale when the software paid for in full, which could be dependent on the commercial success of the work.

This approach would also ensure that any work created with the software would be copyright-protected for being copied or stolen by ensuring the material’s copyright credits included the registered user of the software. Online services such as GraceNote could be used, as online sales such as iTunes which could be seamlessly linked with the system.

Hi we were talking about it in this topic, EchoNest seems to be busy creating a sort of database or fingerprint for ccmixter so we can see if our music is used elsewhere,

Was this the idea what you are asking about?

whole discussion is here, we have had some problems with someone stealing music from different artists http://ccmixter.org/thread/...

greetz