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So you want your music and sounds to be licensed? Creative Commons licences can help you expand the exposure of your music. Follow the step-by-step guide below.

 

Note APRA Members: APRA members, under the standard APRA agreement, assign the performing rights in their works (present and future) to APRA. In most instances, this will mean that APRA members will not be able to release their work under a Creative Commons licence without APRA’s permission. We recommend that APRA members seek advice from APRA before using Creative Commons licences.

 

step 1: determine the nauture of the music/sounds

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Depending on the nature of the work you want to cover, will define how you can licence the work. Your work could be:

  • a website meaning you can add licence details to the source code
  • an electronic file format meaning you embed metadata into the file
  • a physical document meaning you need to print a written notice of the licence terms. This would only apply if you were licencing printed scores of your music, in which case, after you have used the licence chooser you can include the licence terms the same way as you would mark printed documents

launch launch licence chooser

 

don’t have your own site?
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If you don’t have your own site, don’t panic! Other organisations have free hosting that already integrate Creative Commons licences.

You can get specific information on publishing to the Internet Archive or to Morpheus using the “CC Publisher (for PC 1.0.1.msi or for Mac 1.0.1.dmg) program.

You can also get information on how to publish to SoundClick.

 

interested in doing some mixing?
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CCMixter is a community music sharing site featuring songs licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

 

more info Looking for more information on using Creative Commons licences as a musician? See the audio section of the Creative Commons website.

info.pack or view the iCommons.au audio info.pack

 

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