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User:EvanCarroll

2009-10-13T18:35:47Z

EvanCarroll: /* creativecommons */

== About me ==

Find more information about me, Evan Carroll, visit my homepage at [http://www.evancarroll.com www.evancarroll.com]

==sidewiki==

===creativecommons===
Non-commercial really doesn't make sense. I've spent an hour now trying to figure out if the non-commercial license precludes use within a Youtube video by a for-profit company. Non-commercial is remarkably poorly defined, and the recent report on it is extremely indecisive.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127

Finding out what you can and can't do with a non-commercial work is a real joke: while making your work non-commercial might feel "good," the people using that work could be in legal peril if they have little more than a paid advertisement on their blog. There is no place to get this "gray" area clarified, it essentially places the rights for your work in a vague creative-commons catacomb.

My suggestion is to skip the problems and release your work permitting commercial use.

===jamendo===
I see these links everywhere as a repository of CC stuff that is free for commercial use:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Commercial_music

and http://search.creativecommons.org (available if you click the "use for commercial purposes" button, type something in, and hit Jamendo.)

Yet *every* piece of music I find has a license badge of CC on the far right near the bottom, and a place to "license the music" on the page. That button subsequently takes you to a confusing page where you can answer a bunch of personal questions about your use of the work and be fronted with a bill. What is the purpose of the bill if the music is already licensed CC for commercial use?

I'm totally confused.

User:EvanCarroll

2009-10-13T18:33:19Z

EvanCarroll: /* About me */

== About me ==

Find more information about me, Evan Carroll, visit my homepage at [http://www.evancarroll.com www.evancarroll.com]

==sidewiki==

===creativecommons===
Non-commercial really doesn't make sense. I've spent an hour now trying to figure out if the non-commercial license precludes the use within a Youtube video by a for-profit company. Non-commercial is remarkably poorly defined, and the recent report on it is extremely indecisive.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127

Finding out what you can and can't do with a non-commercial work is a real joke: while making your work non-commercial might feel "good," the people using that work could be in legal peril if they have little more than a paid advertisement on their blog. There is no place to get this "gray" area clarified, it essentially places the rights for your work in a vague creative-commons catacomb.

My suggestion is to skip the problems and release your work permitting commercial use.

===jamendo===
I see these links everywhere as a repository of CC stuff that is free for commercial use:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Commercial_music

and http://search.creativecommons.org (available if you click the "use for commercial purposes" button, type something in, and hit Jamendo.)

Yet *every* piece of music I find has a license badge of CC on the far right near the bottom, and a place to "license the music" on the page. That button subsequently takes you to a confusing page where you can answer a bunch of personal questions about your use of the work and be fronted with a bill. What is the purpose of the bill if the music is already licensed CC for commercial use?

I'm totally confused.

User:EvanCarroll

2009-10-13T18:32:57Z

EvanCarroll: /* sidewiki */

== About me ==

Find more information on my homepage at [http://www.evancarroll.com www.evancarroll.com]

==sidewiki==

===creativecommons===
Non-commercial really doesn't make sense. I've spent an hour now trying to figure out if the non-commercial license precludes the use within a Youtube video by a for-profit company. Non-commercial is remarkably poorly defined, and the recent report on it is extremely indecisive.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127

Finding out what you can and can't do with a non-commercial work is a real joke: while making your work non-commercial might feel "good," the people using that work could be in legal peril if they have little more than a paid advertisement on their blog. There is no place to get this "gray" area clarified, it essentially places the rights for your work in a vague creative-commons catacomb.

My suggestion is to skip the problems and release your work permitting commercial use.

===jamendo===
I see these links everywhere as a repository of CC stuff that is free for commercial use:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Commercial_music

and http://search.creativecommons.org (available if you click the "use for commercial purposes" button, type something in, and hit Jamendo.)

Yet *every* piece of music I find has a license badge of CC on the far right near the bottom, and a place to "license the music" on the page. That button subsequently takes you to a confusing page where you can answer a bunch of personal questions about your use of the work and be fronted with a bill. What is the purpose of the bill if the music is already licensed CC for commercial use?

I'm totally confused.

User:EvanCarroll

2009-10-13T18:32:12Z

EvanCarroll: Created page with '==sidewiki== ===creativecommons=== Non-commercial really doesn't make sense. I've spent an hour now trying to figure out if the non-commercial license precludes the use within a…'

==sidewiki==

===creativecommons===
Non-commercial really doesn't make sense. I've spent an hour now trying to figure out if the non-commercial license precludes the use within a Youtube video by a for-profit company. Non-commercial is remarkably poorly defined, and the recent report on it is extremely indecisive.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127

Finding out what you can and can't do with a non-commercial work is a real joke: while making your work non-commercial might feel "good," the people using that work could be in legal peril if they have little more than a paid advertisement on their blog. There is no place to get this "gray" area clarified, it essentially places the rights for your work in a vague creative-commons catacomb.

My suggestion is to skip the problems and release your work permitting commercial use.

===jamendo===
I see these links everywhere as a repository of CC stuff that is free for commercial use:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Commercial_music

and http://search.creativecommons.org (available if you click the "use for commercial purposes" button, type something in, and hit Jamendo.)

Yet *every* piece of music I find has a license badge of CC on the far right near the bottom, and a place to "license the music" on the page. That button subsequently takes you to a confusing page where you can answer a bunch of personal questions about your use of the work and be fronted with a bill. What is the purpose of the bill if the music is already licensed CC for commercial use?

I'm totally confused.

Commercial music

2009-10-13T18:31:49Z

EvanCarroll:

The majority of music released under a CC license uses one of the licenses that [[NonCommercial_Guidelines|prohbit commercial use]] (for purposes of verbatim distribution this includes all of the "sampling" licenses, even ones that allow commercial derivative use). There is as yet no web-scale audio-specific CC search, so here are some pointers to finding music that allows commercial use at some of the CC [[Content Curators]].

===ccMixter===

http://ccmixter.org/media/tags/attribution -- all tracks under a plain BY license. Add genre and other filters to the list by clicking '+' next to the desired filter on the right.

http://ccmixter.org/media/playlist/browse/44 is a playlist of 100 tacks under a plain BY license chosen by the CC Creative Director in February, 20007.

===Jamendo===

This is confusing because there is always a button "license this music" that will ask questions and run up a bill
Browse Jamendo by license at http://jamendo.com/creativecommons/

The same page has a search box that allows you to stipulate that you only want to find music that permits commercial use.

===Others===

Many other sites host some music permitting commercial use, http://archive.org and http://www.dogmazic.net in particular. Add instructions here for finding only commerce-allowed music at these sites.

Everything at http://www.tribeofnoise.com is licensed under BY-SA, which of course permits commercial use.

Everything in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sound is under free licenses that permit commercial use or in the public domain.

[[Category:FAQ]]

Talk:Commercial music

2009-10-13T18:26:35Z

EvanCarroll: Created page with '==Jamendo== Every piece of music I find has a license badge of CC on the far right near the bottom, and a place to "license the music" on the page. That button subsequently takes…'

==Jamendo==
Every piece of music I find has a license badge of CC on the far right near the bottom, and a place to "license the music" on the page. That button subsequently takes you to a confusing page where you can answer a bunch of personal questions about your use of the work and be fronted with a bill. What is the purpose of the bill if the music is already licensed CC for commercial use?
[[User:EvanCarroll|EvanCarroll]] 18:26, 13 October 2009 (UTC)