SWISSRADIO.CH

Swiss Internet Radio was founded on 2 August 2002 under the name RadioCrazy Classical & Jazz in Berlin. It was based on the historical record collection of Carl Flisch, a Swiss music historian. Originally RadioCrazy had a full program channel that was moderated in Dortmund and operated from Berlin. Due to the increasing number of listeners of RadioCrazy Jazz, the full program was dropped in the autumn of 2005. After the rise of the fees by the GEMA and GVL for radio stations that broadcasts their programs on the internet, RadioCrazy Classical & Jazz decided to broadcast from Switzerland. This was the laid of the cornerstone for the Swiss Internet Radio Association (IG Schweizer Internetradio) on 24 August 2004. The user association is representing today the interests of amateur broadcasters in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In December 2009 the Public Domain Radio began its daily radio transmissions for the Swiss Foundation Public Domain. In the end of 2019, Carl Flisch has discontinued the collaboration with his foundation. Swiss Internet Radio will continue his service in 2020 as a part of the CC-Zero-Project which is supported by Wikimedia CH.

The CC-Zero-Project is a non-profit organization. I'm a collector since 1977 of music, sound and voice recordings. Today my collection contains 2'000 phonograph cylinders, 30'000 gramophone records, 20'000 vinyl discs, 15'000 compact discs and 500 laserdiscs.

Your donation will help me to continue my work as a volunteer. My vision is a world with a free and unlimited access to public domain music. Copyright fees and copyright terms are exposed to the arbitrariness of the lobbyists from the collecting societies. Authors get less and less money while the collecting societies maximize their income. Intellectual property is a lucrative business model today. It is therefore not surprising that public domain works are boycotted by the phono industry. iTunes and other music platforms refuse to distribute public domain content. I can not change the world. But I can increase the availability of public domain music recordings due my volunteering by uploading sound files to Wikimedia Commons.

Thank you very much for your donation.

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To watch the song history of all channels together click here.

Works which are out of copyright can be downloaded on Wikimedia Commons:

My activities 2009-2019 for the Public Domain Project
The continuation of my work for the CC-Zero-Project