[linux-audio-user] Specifying the license when posting music?

tim hall tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk
Fri Aug 19 14:32:51 EDT 2005


On Friday 19 August 2005 18:36, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
> what question? i don't understand what you mean by "free jingle" ... i'm
> pretty sure it would be against a non-commercial CC license for a song
> to be used in advertising. in any case, i can't really envision a piece
> of advertising or product endorsement that wouldn't be considered
> commercial. Free/open advertising?! That's like a contradiction of terms!

Sorry, a non-commercial license is by definition non-free. If a piece of music 
is licensed using one of the _free_ licenses it can be used for advertising. 
There is nothing you can do to prevent that. I'd love to hear that I'm wrong, 
but I doubt it.
-- 
cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim



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