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Started June 28th, 2009 · 4 replies · Latest reply by soundhead 15 years, 4 months ago
Hi everyone! This is my first post here, so hopefully I am in the right place and not asking something that I should have seen in the FAQ (I did look there, but I have missed things in the past). If I've made a redundant post, I apologize.
I am a composer and have found this site to be a great resource for samples. I am not planning on selling anything I make with samples from this website and have made sure to credit everything I used (awesome attribution helper tool by the way!), but I have created several tracks that also use samples I purchased from elsewhere. Since I have mixed-license samples that I used, I am therefore confused as to what license I can release my tracks under. I would like to make them creative commons, but will that cause problems with the non-creative commons samples that I used? I cannot find any information specifically forbidding me from making a creative commons track with those other samples, but thought I should seek advice here once I realized there was a place to ask.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
What are the other licenses of the samples used?
What do you hope to acheive by releasing under a creative commons license? (This could affect what license you will pick and compatibility of those samples with such a license)
For example, this is likely a safe license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
But people won't be able to use it for sampling.(but would be free to listen to it)
Alternatively you could put out your song and then put out free sound compatible licenses for certain sample's sections.
You really need to find out what the license of the other sounds are before proceeding.
That license should cover the non-creative common samples I have, thanks for the link. I can release it under that for now without issues from the other samples, since those are effectively the rules I have released other things under using the same samples. Unfortunately I don't know the exact legalese for the other samples (I got them a long time ago with a software package and I'm not sure I still have the paper documentation with the EULA and such), but I know I am allowed to put up a recording of the composition using the samples for personal use, either free or paid, etc. What I don't know is if I can allow people to modify the recording however they want and distribute it. For the moment, I'll just assume I can't let people modify it and will contact the company if it ever happens that someone does want to modify the recording.