Big news for Rob and his MusicBrainz team (and by team I mean over 300,000 dedicated music fans) today:

MusicBrainz is an online database of music information, maintained by an international
community of dedicated enthusiasts and managed by MetaBrainz, a US-based 501.c.3 non-
profit. By working with MusicBrainz, the BBC plans to underpin its broadcasts with a data-
driven, comprehensive online offering, enabling music discovery through its music websites
and beyond.

Matthew Shorter, Editor, bbc.co.uk/music says: “The BBC is getting closer to its audiences by
letting fans write and tag the information around the music they love. Using the MusicBrainz
database to achieve this confirms the BBC’s commitment to work more closely with external
suppliers and with the wider web community.”

Commitment to music? Check. Benefits music lovers? You betcha. Commerce strangling information/knowledge? Well, of course not.

By George, I think we have a winner.

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