Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.One of the ideas being passed around to help market the D7 release is writing a song for it released on the D.O. homepage.
Another one to take that further is to release it on iTunes/Amazon MP3/etc for purchase with proceeds going to major non-profits/drupal association, the benefit being the cash raised and depending on what the music week is like and how much buzz we could generate we might even chart top 200, which could garner possible news coverage outside of the normal broadcast range.
This thread is a place to collect ideas and songs, hopefully done quickly so that we can make it for the release and potentially release it to e-tailors in time (getting a song on various stores such as Amazon MP3/iTunes can take a few weeks).
My suggestion are to:
- License any contributed songs as Creative Commons, and make sure that the Drupal Trademark is used in some compliant way if used
- Since there are so many musicians in the community we might want to collaborate & compete for a song to make it to the drupal home page on the release day
- Vote on songs up until the day before release (determined by votes cast before midnight GMT)
- Use Tunecore to push to stores.
A few requests:
- One thing I think would be great (as a song-writer) is if we could make a list of 30-40 noun tags that describe Drupal in general, Drupal 7, and the fun that's been had in this release cycle (tongue-in-cheek where necessary).
- Can someone from the D.Assoc weigh in with their thoughts on trademark and selling songs
- Can someone weigh in with a potential timeframe we're working within now that RC1 is out
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | released lyrics.txt | 1.44 KB | Itangalo |
Comments
Comment #1
jpstrikesback CreditAttribution: jpstrikesback commentedThe Tunecore suggestion should read:
- Use Tunecore to push potential winners to stores.
Comment #2
bertboerland CreditAttribution: bertboerland commentedas per http://drupal.org/node/894030#comment-3783070. the Drupal Association does not control, own or sublicnese the Drupal Trademark, Dries does.
but: good idea to get this started and I am sure Dries will work with artist regarding the trademark
to contact the DA, please use this form http://association.drupal.org/contact
it will end up in a mailqueue that gets analysed every 24-36 hours, might take som time
to contact dries regarding trademark issue, best use this form
http://drupal.com/contact
but please read first: http://drupal.com/trademark
http://drupal.com/trademark/apply
note: this will end up in a much longer queue handeld by the lawyers of dries
Pending on what you want to do with the work, and for how long you want to use the trademark for what purpose, you might vene have an implicit license.
Comment #3
Itangalo CreditAttribution: Itangalo commentedI found this secret demo song in one of my hidings. It is supposedly a non-released demo made by Kitten Killers – secret notes are also attached.
(Probably Julian Assange will suffer for this leak as well.)
edit: Due to upload limitations, the song and notes are found at http://nodeone.se/blogg/secret-kitten-killers-d7-release-song-unveiled
Comment #4
Itangalo CreditAttribution: Itangalo commentedLyrics and notes uploaded.
Comment #5
jpstrikesback CreditAttribution: jpstrikesback commentedHa! The CoF motif is rather awesome!! Would love to hear this with a choir on the choruses. Great job!
Comment #6
SqyD CreditAttribution: SqyD commentedI'm not a copyright lawyer but a word of caution:
The original "Chariots of Fire" is written and performed by a signed artist, Vangelis. CC licensing is therefore completely out of the question. Also getting this into iTunes or in any way or selling a version of the composition will get you in trouble. Just mentioning a Wikipedia link will in no way prevent you from being sued. It may even attract the copy right police since some of them know about google ;-)
Performing rights are more flexible so playing it in a Kitten Killers live performance shouldn't be a problem.
I recommend changing enough essential parts of the composition so it can be regarded as an original composition, a "sound-a-like".
Since I am a big Kitten Killer fan I would hate if you guys got into trouble for this, but I'd love to hear it on your next drupalcon/foobar performance ;-)
Comment #7
Itangalo CreditAttribution: Itangalo commentedHm, yeah. Good points.
I'm not expecting this song to go into iTunes, but copyright issues may be worth considering both from a avoid-getting-sued perspective and from an ethical one.
I don't think the current state of the song counts as anything but a sound-alike (and thus a tribute), but making it closer imitation of Chariots of Fire might be a bad idea – and as you suggest the opposite may be wise.
Thanks for your input.
//Falk (awaiting the call from Vangelis' lawyers)
Comment #8
bertboerland CreditAttribution: bertboerland commentedalso see http://nodeone.se/blogg/secret-kitten-killers-d7-release-song-unveiled
Comment #9
dnotes CreditAttribution: dnotes commentedSo, if I had all the various permissions I'd need to do it, I'd satirize Ray LaMontagne's "Trouble" (his website is on Drupal too, one of the Sony sites I think http://www.raylamontagne.com). I did a 2 minute armchair verse and put it up at http://share.dnotes.net/drupal-7-release.mp3 - thanks Angie!
Comment #10
dnotes CreditAttribution: dnotes commentedSo, if I had all the various permissions I'd need to do it, I'd satirize Ray LaMontagne's "Trouble" (his website is on Drupal too, one of the Sony sites I think http://www.raylamontagne.com). I did a 2 minute armchair verse and put it up at http://share.dnotes.net/drupal-7-release.mp3 - thanks Angie!
Comment #11
PasqualleTime for D8
Comment #23
quietone CreditAttribution: quietone at PreviousNext commentedHappened to come across this issue. There hasn't been any activity on the topic itself for 12 years so I think it is sensible to close this now. I am choosing outdated.
But if anyone finds themselves here and want to create a song for an upcoming release, make a new issue and start anew.
Cheers