[LAU] [OT] creative commons non-commercial licensed music - ask for advice

Cesare Marilungo cesare at poeticstudios.com
Sat Jan 26 08:54:22 EST 2008


Thank you Martin for this link, and thanks to everybody else for the 
suggestions so far.

-c.

Martin Ahnelöv wrote:
>> I received an email from a film producer (based in Los Angeles,
>> probably 
>> an indie studio) in which he wrote that the director of a movie
>> they're 
>> just finishing (they're at post-production stage) is interested in
>> using 
>> two tracks of mine, 'Balloon' (http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/media)
>> and 
>> 'As we grow older' (http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/media/the-moon-ep).
>>
>> I released these tracks under a non-commercial Creative Commons
>> license:
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed-music.
>>
>> In the past some of my music has been used for some short films, but 
>> these were clearly non commercial projects or film schools thesis.
>>
>> Has anybody some experience on this topic? What should I do? Should I 
>> re-license these tracks? Can I just make them a written permission?
>> Or 
>> should I ask for some kind of royalty (or would it be ridiculous,
>> also 
>> considering that AFAIK Gyorgy Ligeti has never been paid for its
>> music 
>> on '2001 A space odyssey' :-) )?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> - c.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> CC got a pretty good video on this situation here:
> <http://support.creativecommons.org/videos#ccp> (I think it's that one).
>
> You (the author) may give people permission to break the CC-NC license. 
>
> peace,
> Gasten
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