Creative Commons License Question

[LarryWhitler]

Forgive me if you all have covered this already.

If a piece of music has been granted a "creative commons" license does the music still earn PRO royalties or any sync fees, etc.? I have quite a few pieces of music on websites like SoundClick, for example, which I checked the "Creative Commons" box. Thanks, again for your help. - Larry

[mojobone]

I don't know enough about 'creative commons' to answer your question, but what I do know about it is there appears to be no way to withdraw a track from CC; this means your copyright could be in limbo for most uses that involve earning anything.

[Len911]

Maybe this will help;

http://www.lessig.org/2007/12/commons-m ... ings-asca/

https://creativecommons.org/

I think the overall jist is that if your work is used in commercial and not private use, you are entitled to royalties. But there are many, many details and 6 different licenses.

In your case, it probably allows the website immunity from royalties because it is sharing and not selling your songs? But if someone would do a cover of your song to use commercially and make money, they would not be immune to paying royalties. That's my guess.

[mojobone]

M'yeah, not to mention the entire Creative Commons paradigm was designed by people whose true aim is to drown copyrights in the metaphorical bathtub of history. (I mean, what the hey; we got along fine without 'em for literally centuries!-SARCASM alert) It's been quite a while since I read the fine print, but suffice to say, I have released approximately zero content under CC. Wait, no; it's exactly zero.