Put a Creative Commons Licence to your music.
Posted December 13th, 2007 by Oliver CheslerFiled Under: Ableton Live, promotion
Why not allow some of your music to be free? Free for others to use on podcasts, radio shows, remix, mashup or simply free to listen to? This can be a great promotion tool. Creative Commons is a non for profit organization that offers CC licenses from their website.
You log on, answer a few questions and they give you the license. The service is free. You can specify some variables you would like in your license. For example, you can allow people to use your song but require they attribute the work to you. You can choose if you allow your song to be used commercially. You can specify if you don’t want to allow
modifying your song. When you get your license you can simple have some text displaying the type or display one of the cool CC icons.
The video above from Veronica Belmont and Maholo Daily shows the basics of using Creative Commons in reference to the music world. It shows some websites you can use to promote your newly licensed music. Also in the video is a lame attempt at a mashup in Ableton Live which is worth watching just for a laugh.Here is a song I offer for free. It was also released on a 9/11 Tribute album:
Creative Commons Licenes are not just for audio, you can add them to text, video, images and software.
photo credit: openDemocracy
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