Choose Your Sampling License Options

The Sampling licenses let you invite other people to use a part of your work and make it new.

For example:

• To take a sample from your song and include it in their own.
• To use a clip from your film.
• To take a piece of your photograph and put it into a collage.

Think of it as a way to reward people for transforming your work into something it wasn't before.

On certain conditions, that is. There are two flavors of the Sampling license. Pick the one that reflects your creative style:

	Sampling Plus: People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed. Hence, "plus".
	Noncommercial Sampling Plus: People can take and transform pieces of your work for noncommercial purposes only. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed.

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Jurisdiction

If you desire a license governed by the Copyright Law of a specific jurisdiction, please select the appropriate jurisdiction.

Additional Information

The additional fields are optional, but will be embedded in the HTML generated for your license. This allows users of your work to determine how to attribute it or where to go for more information about the work.

Tell us the format of your work:

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Title of work

Attribute work to name

Attribute work to URL

Source work URL

More permissions URL

Embedded Metadata

The information is embedded in a software readable format. This allows search engines to index additional information about your work and allows people coming to the license deed from your page to see information on the deed about how to attribute your work.

More information on Creative Commons metadata is available if you want to find out more.

Source work URL

A work another is derived from.

Title of work

The title of the work you are licensing.

Attribute work to name

The name users of the work should give attribution to. For example, the name of the work's author.

Attribute work to URL

The URL users of the work should link to. For example, the work's page on the author's site.

More permissions URL

A URL where a user can obtain information about clearing rights that are not pre-cleared by your CC license.

• Note: The sampling license isn't just for music. It can apply to all types of copyrighted work: images, film, etc.
• Before you apply the Sampling License to your work, make sure you have the authority to license all the rights involved. Musical works, for example, often consist of multiple copyrights (composition, recording, lyrics).

If you want to invite people to make any commercial re-use of your work — transformative or not — you should consider either the Attribution-ShareAlike license or simply the Attribution license.