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+FAQ
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+
+Your music is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0, what does that mean?
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+In two words, you have the right to:
+
+- **Freely download and listen to our music**
+- Copy and distribute our music as soon as you credit us for this work
+- Make derivative works, provided that you cite the author and release
+ your work under the same license.
+
+You can get to the `Creative Commons Website
+<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>`_ for more details.
+
+So you are just doing free music?
+---------------------------------
+
+Yes and No. The term “free music” in english is a bit ambiguous because
+it may mean “zero price” or “with little restrictions” (see the
+`license <{filename}license.rst>`_). Refer to the `Wikipedia
+article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_music>`_ for more details.
+
+I would like to use your music in a video, am I allowed to do it?
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If the license of your video is CC-BY-SA, you can.
+
+Else, you need to ask us first. Don’t hesitate to contact us!
+
+Why not selling your music like everyone else?
+----------------------------------------------
+
+We want everyone to have access to our music (and not just a small piece
+in degraded quality). We want to give the opportunity to those who come
+on the website to listen to what Marker Beacon produces in the best
+conditions, as often as they want.
+
+By **respecting people who like our music**, we believe that we
+encourage them to support our project.
+
+In addition to all of this, we think that access to culture should not
+necessarily be traded. Open source projects like Wikipedia and Linux
+show that alternate approaches are also possible!
+
+“Marker Beacon is a non-profit organization”: what does that mean?
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Being an non-profit organization (in french: association loi 1901)
+guaranties that the revenues of the association will only be used to
+serve the goals of the association, which are: compose, record,
+distribute our music. (refer to the `articles of the
+organization <{filename}articles.rst>`_ for more
+details), and not to serve the interests of the members of the band (for
+instance buy us golden toilets).
+
+Who funded the production of your CD?
+-------------------------------------
+
+All costs incurred for the production of CD are contributions made by
+the members of the band. These contributions are called “apport” in
+french: in the legal sense of the term, it is somehow comparable to a 0%
+loan made by members of the band to the association.
+
+We hope that the association will recover funds through the sale of CDs,
+so we will be able to reimburse the contributions to the members. After
+that, the rest of funds serve the interests of the association (see the
+`articles <{filename}articles.rst>`_), in other words
+recording a new album!
+
+How do you define the price of your CD?
+---------------------------------------
+
+Despite downloading our music is free, the CD is paying for the simple
+reason that it has manufacturing cost. But more than the price of the
+item itself, **the purchase of our CD is seen as a symbolic act,
+supporting Marker Beacon**.
+
+The price of our CD is 9.90 euros. If we substract the cost of the
+delivery and the margin of paypal, it means we would have to sell about
+700 units to reimburse all costs. However we give our listeners the
+opportunity to give more: for reference, a commercial album costs about
+15-20 euros. If you want to help us to fund a second album, take a look
+to the account page, and decide by yourself what amount would be the
+best!
+
+When will the next album be released?
+-------------------------------------
+
+The composition of new music already started! As recording will be done
+in our home studio, it does not cost us anything. But for anything that
+requires an access to a professional studio we have to wait that the
+organization have enough money for that… in short, as soon as we sell
+enough CD and receive enough donations, we can do it!
+
+What will you do if you sell millions of CD?
+--------------------------------------------
+
+If you read the other answers of the FAQ above, you know that:
+
+- It is very unlikely 😉
+- The money would only serve the goals of the association: the creation
+ and recording of music as well as its distribution.
+- We would support other projects in accordance with the articles of
+ the organization
+- Probably we would also become masters of the world
+
+How did you record your music?
+------------------------------
+
+The recording has been made by us in our home studio. Most guitars go
+through an ENGL amp Powerball, others were made on a Marsall JMP1 and
+ADA MP2. The bass goes to the console (Tascam DM24) through a DI and a
+distortion (Ibanez DS7). For the vocals, we used a Shure SM7A in
+directly plugged to the console. The drums are initially performed by a
+free software (`hydrogen <http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/>`_) but
+reworked by the studio. The synthesizers are done with
+`rosegarden <http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/>`_,
+`fluidsynth <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/>`_ and
+`zynaddsubfx <http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/>`_.
+
+All these tracks have been then exported to
+`ardour <http://ardour.org/>`_, a great (and free) multitrack audio
+sequencer. Some tracks have been slightly reworked, cleaned, and
+pre-mixed by us. Then all was exported again and sent to the `THD
+studio <http://www.thdstudio.com/>`_ for mix + mastering. Ephrem
+Charmois did a really great job!
+
+Who designed the cover of “Dead Frequencies”?
+---------------------------------------------
+
+All graphical design of “Dead Frequencies” is done by Aurélia Trutet.
+Thank you very much to her!
+
+Who took the pictures?
+----------------------
+
+The pictures for “Dead Frequencies” are done by Sylvain Mary (2006-2007)
+and Pascal Bally. We would like to thank them here.
+
+Are you a member of the SACEM or another authors guild?
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+No: there is no benefit for us to be a member of the SACEM.
+
+For how long Marker Beacon have been existing?
+----------------------------------------------
+
+The band have been existing in its current formation since 2000.
+
+What are your influences?
+-------------------------
+
+We define ourselves as a melodic heavy/thrash metal band.
+
+Our influences are diverse, they range from the Rock (Foo Fighters
+Smashing Pumpkins, Joe Satriani) to Black Metal (Dimmu Borgir, Immortal)
+through Heavy Metal (Metallica, Iron Maiden) or Melodic Death (In
+Flames, Soilwork).
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