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Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by madeofpalk »

qguiller wrote: post #26
robjan wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's neither. You can't just match up the terms of Creative Commons licenses then assume because they are similar that you can say it's Creative Commons licensed.

Go Check the soundcloud link of the title and tell me what licence CC you see!

It is unclear what the actual license for the track is when the author says very clearly states that commercial use is restricted, but the author also selected CC BY 3.0.

These two things are in conflict with each other, so it probably makes sense to chose the most restrictive option.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by thn-gap »

In the upload form I see the following

> This way, a track originally released as "free" becomes into a "copyrighted" song by a third company, affecting severely our reputation and making impossible to promote any other of your tracks.

How can someone use free music without risking either: a) the music was never free to use, and someone else uploaded the copyrighted music owned by someone else. b) the music is later copyrighted, and you are then infringing the copyright.

Do I understand copyright law wrong? Assuming you make a commercial product with it, you get screwed over this.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by fdiskl »

MadMatt13 wrote: post #24

I've been watching a lot of Travel vlogs recently, I am moving out to a new place next month. It's crazy how all those tunes sounds exactly the same. Great project though. I just wish those "CC BY artits" would be more creative.

there are some cc by artists on freemusicarchive who are quite original. the ones that immediately come to mind are Kevin MacLeod, Andy G. Cohen, Jahzzar, Scott Buckley

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by fdiskl »

qguiller wrote: post #9
fdiskl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Freemusicarchive is the place where a lot of people typically get music. You can search by license, genre, length, etc.

Better Music on Audiak :-)

how do you figure? audiak appears to have only a handful of songs, mainly of the same genre and not necessarily well composed, and no way to search or otherwise make use of it in a serious way without just listening to them all

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by callahad »

literallycancer wrote: post #30
callahad wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both tracks by Atch ( https://soundcloud.com/atch-music/overyou and https://soundcloud.com/atch-music/freedom ) state: > "My music is free to use on social media AS LONG AS credit/attribution is given. To credit me correctly and avoid a copyright claim, you must copy and paste the below text into the description of your videos [...] If you wish to use my music for commercial purposes (online advertisements, podcasts…

If I publish two otherwise identical repos, one with MIT license and one with copyright, there's no doubt as to what you are allowed to do with it. Why is this different?

It's more akin to one repo, where your package.json says "MIT" but your LICENSE.MD says "commercial use prohibited."

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by steerablesafe »

thn-gap wrote: post #32

In the upload form I see the following > This way, a track originally released as "free" becomes into a "copyrighted" song by a third company, affecting severely our reputation and making impossible to promote any other of your tracks. How can someone use free music without risking either: a) the music was never free to use, and someone else uploaded the copyrighted music owned by someone else. b) the music is later…

IANAL but I don't think that works can become copyrighted. It can be distributed with a license for free use, but then that license can't be revoked after the fact.

The license could be non-transferable and the work can be distributed with a more restrictive license in the future by the copyright holders, or not distributed at all. None of these should affect those that use the work legitimately with the permissive license given to them in the past.

edit: Maybe if a license is revocable or not must be spelled out in the license itself. Many open licenses seem to be explicitly irrevocable.

edit2: More on this topic https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4012/are-lice...

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by comboy »

steerablesafe wrote: post #36
thn-gap wrote: post #32

In the upload form I see the following > This way, a track originally released as "free" becomes into a "copyrighted" song by a third company, affecting severely our reputation and making impossible to promote any other of your tracks. How can someone use free music without risking either: a) the music was never free to use, and someone else uploaded the copyrighted music owned by someone else. b) the music is later…

IANAL but I don't think that works can become copyrighted. It can be distributed with a license for free use, but then that license can't be revoked after the fact. The license could be non-transferable and the work can be distributed with a more restrictive license in the future by the copyright holders, or not distributed at all. None of these should affect those that use the work legitimately with the permissive l…

I think the question was what if the music is stolen.

E.g. imagine clone of a GPL github repo but with MIT slapped on it.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by web007 »

No contact info, no terms of service or privacy policy, not even an About page to describe who/what this is. All downloads are hiding behind bit.ly or dropbox links, so there's no clear attribution of where they're coming from.

This _feels_ about as scammy as it can get. It's possible that everything is above-board, but I would not feel safe using this content for anything public-facing.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by thesuitonym »

dylz wrote: post #23
qguiller wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yes, it’s CC-BY 3.0

> If you wish to use my music for commercial purposes (online advertisements, podcasts etc), you will need to purchase a license This clearly makes it not CC-BY. Maybe CC BY NC?

IANAL but I think legally, if you put CC-BY on it, then just write in the comments that you can't use it commercially, that wouldn't stand. CC-BY-NC is available, and the author did not have to upload it as CC-BY in the first place.

To be clear, I still think this site has some problems, and author's wishes should be respected, but I think if the author wants you to not use it commercially, they should put the correct license on their work.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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Post by packetlost »

wilsonfiifi wrote: post #11

Thanks for the link. If you don’t mind, can you explain how this is different from what NCS (No Copyright Sounds) [0] is offering? [0] https://ncs.io/

NCS has some (very minimal) terms of use that you have to comply with: credit the artist. Creative Commons licensed work has no such requirement.
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