Creative Commons DVD released
Today, Creative Commons Nederland released a DVD containing music and video’s exclusively licensed under CC-licenses. That means you can freely download the tracks, freely distribute them, and in many cases freely remix them without violating copyrights.
The project started with asking musicians to send in music. Afterwards they let several video artists choose a track and create a video clip for it. It so happens that one of my tracks got selected, the videogame/8bit like track “Mier”. And Ckoe made a wonderful matching robot style video clip for it. Yeah! They really go great together and I would like to thank Ckoe for the love he put in animating this multifunctional music bot.
Creative Commons licenses allow for a much more flexible licensing system. There’s no legally strangling contract prohibiting other musicians to sample your music and interpret it in their own way. But your intellectual property is protected just the same. There a lot of different CC-licenses, one for a multitude of situations. For example, you can choose yourself whether others can remix them, can use them commercially, etc. For more info: www.creativecommons.org or the Dutch version.
Also covered on www.nu.nl.