Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Creative Commons License


If you download the PDF of one of my pieces, you will notice a disclaimer at the beginning and end of the music: "This work released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License".  What this means is that when performing a composition by me that is released with this license, I must be given proper attribution and the piece cannot be performed if a profit will be made from the performance.  So what is proper attribution?  I should be listed as the composer and the URL for More Than 3 Chords (morethan3chords.blogspot.com) should also be listed.  A couple of examples:

Example 1 -
         Ode To Batman...............................Ed Woodward
                                     (morethan3chords.blogspot.com)
Example 2 -
         Ode To Batman...............................Ed Woodward*
         ...
         ...
         * morethan3chords.blogspot.com

As long as these 2 pieces of information are included and associated with each other, I am happy.  There are more details at Creative Commons.  I am not that interested in making money off my music, but I am also not interested in someone else making money from my creative work.  Basically, give me proper attribution and you are free to use, change and distribute my music for noncommercial purposes.  If you do use my music, I would love to hear about it and hear your performance.

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