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SoundShelf.com offers CC for music

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SoundShelf.com hosts free music of various genres and makes it all available under the EFF Open Audio License, or a Creative Commons license. This was taken directly from their FAQ: 2. When is free music legal? Free music is legal when the artists want it to be. Until recently it was near impossible to know…

Pay to license working with Creative Commons

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One-man band Brad Sucks recently signed with Magnatune and licensed all his tracks under Creative Commons (and began selling them on a sliding scale on Magnatune’s site). We were delighted to hear that Brad’s song “Making Me Nervous” was recently licensed for use in radio ads and TV ads that played in Canada. Thanks in…

CC Remix Music — Jammin on the Net, and Holland Hopson

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Last featured on CC Remix Music was Funktifyno, a great fusion jam band based in Oregon. Chris Morris, based in Texas, read our blog and turned their song Funkberry Jam into Funkberrymo Jam by adding a keyboard track– how’s that for jamming on the Net? Today we are featuring Holland Hopson’s song Cuckoo, a peaceful…

Science Commons

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As we announced in our short film “Reticulum Rex” and on this blog in January, one of Creative Commons’ New Year’s Resolutions was to explore a Science Commons — a new, parallel branch of our organization dedicated to investigating how our “some rights reserved” model can be applied to pressing problems in science and the…

Call and Response

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My most vivid memory from South by Southwest: Thursday night in Austin, TX, USA, MSN threw a party across the street from the convention center. It was in a spare warehouse space, like a rave or fly-by-night underground party, but the fancy lighting, free drinks, and imported-looking crowd (L.A.) all said Big Bucks. The women…

MusicBrainz for OS X (finally!)

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MusicBrainz, the Creative Commons licensed music metadata database, has long been limited to windows users. OS X users are in luck though, as iEatBrainz has been released. By using a sophisticated set of audio fingerprinting and other technology, iEatBrainz and MusicBrainz allow you to re-tag all your MP3s. This is a killer feature for anyone…

Audio Lunchbox

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Although they’re not selling any Creative Commons licensed music, it’s worth noting that there’s a new player in the downloadable music arena: Audio Lunchbox. They specialize in small indie rock labels, selling albums for around ten dollars each in instantly available downloadable formats. Additionally, the high bitrate MP3 and ogg vorbis tracks contain no DRM…