Musicians and CC

Online Resources

• Sound on Sound has an article titled Creative Commons, Copyright & The Independent Musician - New Approach To Copyright Licensing.
• Interview with Jamison Young discussing how musicians can benefit from the use of CC licenses.
• Public Knowledge has a long piece explaining Copyright as it pertains to musicians titled "Copyright Tutorial for Musicians"
• ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Case Studies

Learn more about how musicians use Creative Commons licenses in their work.

Featured Entries

• Ancient Free Gardeners: Ancient Free Gardeners is an indie-rock band in Melbourne, Australia, using Creative Commons licences to distribute their music.

• Christopher Willits: Willits is a prominent experimental musician from the San Francisco Bay area.

• Jonathan Coulton: Jonathan Coulton is an independent/unsigned singer-songwriter who utilises Creative Commons licences to help promote his music via free downloads.

• Monk Turner: Monk Turner is a musician of eclectic taste and an approach to releasing albums that involves CC licensing through the internet archive.

• Pig Head Skin: Yueh-hsin Chu (a.k.a. Pig Head Skin) is an independent musician/producer in Taiwan, and leads the band Jesus Rocks! The band released an album of the same name in October 2004 under a Creative Commons License.

• Topology: Topology is an internationally acclaimed Brisbane-based new music ensemble.

• Yunyu: Yunyu is a successful unsigned singer/songwriter in Sydney, Australia, who uses Creative Commons licences for promotional purposes.