Saturday, February 20, 2010

Music free and not free

  


I downloaded music from http://www.jamendo.com/ for a license fee of $12.00 thinking I could use it on my blogsite but I am now wondering if it is even possible.  I'm still working on it.  Jamendo is a great place to go to get free and legal music under the Creative Commons licenses. It is available in 7 different languages.  For artists it is wonderful. At Jamendo they can share and promote their music.  It is free and/or legal because of the Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is part of the non-profit world that makes "sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing possible".  Copyright terms can be changed.  Copyrights can be "all rights reserved" or "some rights reserved". CC is "not an alternative to copyright". The collaboration of experts help you to customize your copyright licenses to your satisfaction. They also offer a "no rights reserved" license that "allows you to place your work as squarely as possible with the public domain".
There are 6 main licenses available:  1) Attribution - lets everyone copy, distribute, and use your work as long as you give the creator the credit; 2) Share Alike - others can distribute your work under a license identical to yours; 3) Non-Commercial - The same as No 1 but use is for ONLY non - commercial use; 4) No Derivative Works - the user of your work must use it "verbatim" and the credit is yours and indicated as such ALWAYS; 5) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike - This is the license where others can remix and use your work pershaps as a base to create their own works, as long as you are credited and they carry the same license as you; 6) Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives - Restrictions apply here mostly.  The users must credit you and link back to you. They cannot change them or use them commercially.
http://creativecomons.org/about/licenses

Collaborative creativity has often been used and this is the place to do it legally. Building off of other works of creativeness in OK. Inspired artists get started here without violating any license.  "It is Creative Commons' goal to help create such a mechanism." Granting of permission is done through Creative Commons licensing. People are free to use what they find and create different things and this does not take away from the original idea. As was said by  "Thomas Jefferson, "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me." "
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Legal_Concepts

Josh Woodward shares his music under a Creative Commons license that allows you to copy and distribute it as long as you give Josh the credit.  Josh has removed his Share-Alike clause and his license is now a Creative Commons Attribution license. Use it! He wants you to use it freely - go for it! Just be sure to credit Josh Woodward.
Click below to listen freely to Josh's music.  http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/54034  If you like Josh Woodward you can see him in concert in Findlay, OH on Feb 27th at Coffee Amici (found on a Twitter feed).

Who else uses CC? "Al Jazeera has a website for journalists and other tv correspondents with Al Jazeera tv, under a CC license.  Photographers everywhere share  photos under the CC license on flickr. Of course Google uses a variety of licenses for their services on Picasa, YouTube and other digital services. I've used some photos from Picasa herein this blogsite. It's great! The industrial rockband Nine Inch Nails uses CC. OCW, is a tool used by universities and they use the CC licenses. The Public Library of Science uses the CC Attribution license.Wikipedia "recently migrated its licensing structure from the GNU Free Documentation License to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license." Campaign photos of the Obama Administration have been distributed and shared under a CC license. Check out Whitehouse.gov
credit for this information goes to http://creativecommons.org/about/who-uses-cc/

Sites like http://www.theholisticcare.com/forums/ use the Creative Commons licenses to bring yoga and other sources of healing into the homes of anyone who wishes to learn about these alternative ways of healing.  Retrieved from http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Holistic

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