This doesn't get mentioned very often around here, but if any one is looking for remix material, the Opsound audio pool has a ton of stuff available.
Most licensed under a Creative Commons by attribution, share alike license. Three or four seemed to have donated to the public domain.
Cheers,
Steve
Opsound
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- KVRAF
- 1907 posts since 29 Oct, 2003
just don't ever expect to get payed - I had one of my songs featured in some (smaller) movie production and you guessed it - for 0$. money can't buy me love though.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
If the film was commercial, and they did so without your permission, that's a violation of the license.mauseoleum wrote:just don't ever expect to get payed - I had one of my songs featured in some (smaller) movie production and you guessed it - for 0$. money can't buy me love though.
Grounds for lawsuit. Likely you could get/find free counsel through EFF or CC themselves.
But, not to add salt in your wounds, if you were looking for cash, I'd suggest open-sourcing isn't the wisest choice.
Cheers,
Steve
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- KVRist
- 363 posts since 13 Apr, 2004 from NYC, USA
One of the benefits of the open source model is publicity, publicity, publicity. Most of those here don't have huge PR budgets (I certainly don't), so a free music community (like Opsound) is one way to make my music go out and work on my behalf (while I stay home and write new tunes 
). I just decided for myself what tunes or riffs or beats or whatever I was willing to give up to the cause of getting more people to listen to my music. It turns out I have a lot of that stuff lying around.
I look at it this way: Let's say I'd be willing at some later point in my career to put up some money to publicize my work. If that money would be a fraction of what I would theoretically make FROM my music, giving up a fraction of the music itself is in the end the same thing to me. And the only thing I'm giving up is that others would be free to use whatever I've chosen to contribute in whatever way they like. I can still make as much money from it as I can manage.
I had to think about this for a while, but eventually I found I'm pretty comfortable with the idea.
It DOES mean that whatever you put up there is FREE for anyone to use (though they have to attribute your contribution -- which is the great thing in case someone makes a huge hit from something I've put in ), so I'm just careful what I put up.
FYI, just from listening to their webcast, Opsound seems to be more geared to experimental and glitch music, though I've heard pretty much every genre on it.
Cheers.
). I just decided for myself what tunes or riffs or beats or whatever I was willing to give up to the cause of getting more people to listen to my music. It turns out I have a lot of that stuff lying around.I look at it this way: Let's say I'd be willing at some later point in my career to put up some money to publicize my work. If that money would be a fraction of what I would theoretically make FROM my music, giving up a fraction of the music itself is in the end the same thing to me. And the only thing I'm giving up is that others would be free to use whatever I've chosen to contribute in whatever way they like. I can still make as much money from it as I can manage.
I had to think about this for a while, but eventually I found I'm pretty comfortable with the idea.
It DOES mean that whatever you put up there is FREE for anyone to use (though they have to attribute your contribution -- which is the great thing in case someone makes a huge hit from something I've put in
), so I'm just careful what I put up.FYI, just from listening to their webcast, Opsound seems to be more geared to experimental and glitch music, though I've heard pretty much every genre on it.
Cheers.
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- KVRAF
- 1907 posts since 29 Oct, 2003
no wounds, it was some art thing, and don't missunderstand my post - I wasn't dissing the opsound while I've got impression you understood my post in such way.
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- KVRist
- 363 posts since 13 Apr, 2004 from NYC, USA
Oh hey, I got it. Didn't think you were dissing it, I was just throwing in my two cents.
Cheers.
Cheers.