COPYRIGHT: FAIR USE : COPYRIGHT FREE: Sources Listing and About Royalty Free Music and Other Media

[David P. Dillard]

COPYRIGHT: FAIR USE :
COPYRIGHT FREE:
Sources Listing and About Royalty Free Music and Other Media

On the EDTECH discussion group that is a part of H-Net, there has been an
interesting discussion and presentation of sources of royalty or copyright
free music resources on the internet. I suggest, however, that one search
the archives of that discussion group for recent and past posts about
royalty free and copyright free as content on this subject in general may
be helpful by application to copyright free as applied to music sources
and one may also want now or later copyright free art and other media.

EDTECH (H-Net) Home Page
http://www.h-net.org/~edweb/

Search results
Your search for "royalty free" returned 67 message(s).

On EDTECH the results for copyright free were huge, so I used copyright
free and music as a search strategy.

Search results
Your search for ""copyright free" and music" returned 999 message(s).

The post that I made in the current discussion thread is immediately below
and is followed by some additional observations that I will make regarding
finding resources about copyright or royalty free music. By the way, I
suspect that some music could and may be royalty free but under copyright
as the owners of the music may not charge for its use under some or all
circumstances, but, nevertheless, require attribution. Please also
remember that while music may be out of copyright and now public domain,
specific recordings of that music will still be under copyright as the
performance is under copyright.


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Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jw...@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
To: EDTECH - Educational Technology <EDT...@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Archives Was Re: Royalty Free Music


The CNI-Copyright discussion group is an excellent resource for discussion
of this issue of copyright and music as well as music out of copyright.
I recommend a Google search that includes both CNI-Copyright content and
any sources on this topic that link to CNI-Copyright.

Go to Google:
http://www.google.com

Search this group of words as displayed below including an quotation
marks:

"Copyright Free" and music and "cni-copyright"

Go to the END of the results displayed

At the bottom of the last page of these results click on this hyperlink:

"repeat the search with the omitted results included."

Web Results 21 - 25 of about 54 for "Copyright Free" and music and
"cni-copyright". (0.35 seconds)

[The above is the original group of links before clicking on the above
hyperlink on the Google search results page.]

Ignore any false drops that are clearly off topic.

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 174 for "Copyright Free" and music and
"cni-copyright".
[This is the group of links after clicking the above hyperlink.]

This is a sample of what is found with this search:

Computers and Copyrights: Bibliography... and Rap Music Have in Common
with Academic Computing's Latest Technology. ... Covers basic principles
of the law of copyright, free speech, libel, ...
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/irg-04.htm - 23k -


cni-copyright: RE: Making the author pay (was: The impossibilit...
impossibility of withdrawing from circulation) To: cni group
<cni-co...@cni.org> ... Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free
Writings, Music, Art ...
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/2001-04/0132.html - 9k -


cni-copyright: Re: When was statement of copyright upon publica...
Multiple recipients of list <cni-co...@cni.org> Subject: Re: When was
statement ... a copy of _The Public Domain: How to Find & Use
Copyright-Free ...
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/2001-04/0240.html - 4k -


cni-copyright: Re: Reproducing graphics... of list <cni-co...@cni.org>
Subject: Re: Reproducing graphics In-Reply-To: ... Go and buy _The Public
Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free ...
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/2001-01/0616.html - 4k -


cni-copyright: Re: songs in the public domain... of list
<cni-co...@cni.org> Subject: Re: songs in the public domain ... How to
Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More_ by Attorney ...
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/2001-04/0313.html - 4k -


ITS Center for Instructional Technology... "You May Need a License for the
Music in Your Multimedia Show. ... Covers basic principles of the law of
copyright, free speech, libel, privacy, ...
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-04.html - 30k -


[DDN] Copyrights... use of media resources is the CNI-Copyright discussion
group and its archives. ... Another valuable resource for music copyright
is the Music Librarians ...
http://mailman.edc.org/pipermail/ digitaldivide/2005-February/001426.html
- 12k -


Copyright & Fair Use: Image Debate, Introduction... say yea or nay to the
question of making copyright-free or fair use copies. ... vra-l and
cni-copyright who so articulately and passionately contributed ...
http://www.studiolo.org/IP/VR/VR12-INT.htm - 111k -


[PDF] LICENSING THE USE OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MATERIALSFile Format:
PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-free Writings, Music,
Art & More ... Amaylah Keshet posting to the cni-copyright listserv, 13
April 1999, ...
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/ rbm/backissuesvol3no2/browar.pdf


E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321 ......
1995, Available at:
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1995-03/0823.html (last ... THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN: HOW TO FIND COPYRIGHT-FREE WRITINGS, MUSIC, ...
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v10n4/halbert104.txt - 93k - May 29,
2005 -

Subsequently this Google search should also be tried:

"royalty Free" and music and "cni-copyright"

After "omitted results" hyperlink has been clicked:

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 43 for "royalty Free" and music and
"cni-copyright".

Content Sample:

cni-copyright: RE: Background music for CD display... To:
<cni-co...@cni.org> Subject: RE: Background music for CD display ...
royalty-free once you've paid for the CD. There's plenty of stock music
out ...
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/2001-01/0206.html - 4k -


cni-copyright: Re: Fair Use Question?... 1994 01:37:04 -0800 To:
cni-co...@cni.org From: ten...@netcom.com (Glenn ... that have
royalty-free music, sound effects, clip art, and photographs. ...
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1994-02/0036.html - 8k -


RE: Background music for CD display... some stock music that can be used
royalty-free once you've paid for the CD. ... From:
owner-cni...@cni.org [mailto:owner-cni...@cni.org]On ...
http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/ list/cni-copyright/msg13260.html - 6k -


Copyright... sources for licensed, public domain, and royalty free
materials ... Software Publishers Association, CNI-Copyright (Copyright &
Intellectual Property ...
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/nsf/copyright.html - 10k -


IALL Management Manual - Module 9... Do not neglect the royalty-free
resources available on your own campus, ... CNI-co...@cni.org - A
discussion list sponsored by the Coalition for ...
http://iallt.org/pub/manman/manual09.html - 76k -


Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright... However, royalty free
licenses are also legally possible; for example, ... and publishers and
provide information about music licensing and copyrights.] ...
http://cendi.dtic.mil/publications/04-8copyright.html - 208k -


Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright... However, royalty free
licenses are also legally possible; for example, ... and publishers and
provide information about music licensing and copyrights.] ...
http://cendi.dtic.mil/publications/00-3copyright.html - 208k -


[PDF] CENDI / 2000-3File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... a royalty-free, nonexclusive and irrevocable right to reproduce,
publish, ... for Identifiers and Descriptors for Use in the Music, Film,
Video, ...
http://cendi.dtic.mil/publications/04-8copyright.pdf -


Public Domain Resources... send an e-mail to list...@cni.org and type
subscribe CNI-Copyright your name ... This site has many royalty free
graphics, images, and animations. ...
http://www.ksu.edu/academicservices/intprop/prod.htm - 41k - May 29, 2005

A similar search of LibLicense turns up this useful document to consider.

2004 Yale University Library
This file last modified 01/12/05
Electronic Library Initiatives
Copyright Circulars
<http://www.library.yale.edu/eli/copyright/>

"These provide a basic set of guidelines for understanding copyright in
the context of digital course support projects. These are general guides
to help you understand the law. If, after reading the guides, you still
have questions about a specific use, click here for an email contact
form.

Circular 1: is it copyrighted [pdf]

Circular 2: fair use guidelines [pdf]

Circular 3: licensing resources [pdf]

For Further Reading

Nolo Press publishes books about the law for non-lawyers. These "plain
english" guides are a good introduction to legal concepts and a great
place to start learning more about copyright. (Morris = Yale University
Law Library online catalog.)"

I hope that these additional techniques and resources will be of
additional help to the members of this discussion group.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@astro.temple.edu
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
<http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
<http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org>
World Business Community Advisor
<http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org>

Please keep in mind that most composers are also noted authors.

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Additional Search Techniques

One should not neglect general searches of Google for these topics of
copyright free music and of royalty free music as despite the huge results
numerically, fishing through the first several screens of Google results
will provide some invaluable leads.

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 42,600 for "copyright free music"

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 262,000 for "royalty free music".

Brief content sample from the copyright free music search:

[Please bear in mind that this is a sample of search results and this list
of results does NOT constitute recommendations.]

Copyright Free Music from Royalty Free Music
Copyright free music avalible from Royalty Free Music for all of your
production needs from Gold Platinum and Grammy Award winning production
coordinators.
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/copyright-free-music.htm - 15k -


Royalty Free Music, Buyout Music, Production Music, Music on Hold ...
... copyright free music spacer. Award Winning Music. Phone:
541.734.4000. Toll-free: 800.716.0065. International: 001.541.734.4000.
Fax: 501.631.8083 ...
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/ - 53k - May 29, 2005 -


Copyright Free Music and Royalty Free Music Library
Copyright free music, Royalty free music, broadcast digital quality music
for television ,video production and multimedia soundtracks.
http://www.akmmusic.co.uk/ - 21k -


Trackline Copyright Free Music Library
Trackline Music Services is the UK's largest library of royalty free
music. Over 700 tracks of copyright free music are available on a
copyright buyout ...
http://www.trackline.com/ - 2k -


Welcome to the Mutopia Project
Open-source sheet music in PDF, PS, and GNU LilyPond formats. Mostly
classical, with a little jazz.
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ - 13k - May 29, 2005 -


Piolet - Free music downloads, mp3 downloads
Music file sharing application supporting text and voice chat,
multi-source MP3 and ogg downloads, and a built-in media player.
http://www.piolet.com/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages


Copyright-free Music
... NVM Digital are one of the UK's leading libraries of copyright-free
music for multimedia. ... Copyright-free Music on CD - 20 CD Library
Buyout 334.00 ...
http://www.nvmdigital.com/d-commerce/library.html - 14k -


NVM Digital - Copyright-free Music, Photo Library, Special ...
NVM Digital - Copyright-free Music, Photo Library, Special Interest
CD-ROMs, Arts and Crafts.
http://www.nvmdigital.com/ - 12k - May 29, 2005 -


Royalty free Music downloads and audio CDs: Flying Hands
Royalty free music. MP3's - search, listen, download. CD's - more songs,
more tracks, better quality. Buyout background music for commercial
production.
http://www.flyinghands.com/ - 25k - May 29, 2005 -


The Sheet Music Archive
... You may create your own edition of copyright-free music using a
computer, and upload the music to us. Basically, any music by ...
http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/upload3.htm - 6k -

Further more, one can try this search in Google Scholar and Scirus and
find additional resources on this topic, including discussions and
research reports.

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/

Please notice the change of search strategy due to the difference in the
nature of the Google Scholar database over Google:

Scholar Results 1 - 10 of about 53 for "copyright free" and music

Scholar Results 1 - 10 of about 128 for "royalty free" and music .


Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

Searched for:: All of the words:"copyright free" and music
Found:: :3,456 total | 3 journal results | 3,453 Web results

Searched for:: All of the words:"royalty free" and music
Found:: :16,566 total | 9 journal results | 16,557 Web results

So there is much that one can discover on this topic including some
content in the Net-Gold archives, which this post will join after it is
complete.

Search copyright free here
<http://snipurl.com/f9ea>

and find these source listings

Item # Date Time Recs Subject

006759 05/05/05 10:46 865
COPYRIGHT: ISSUES: The
Fair Use Issue: Some Sources of Information and Discussion


006651 05/04/27 07:22 134
[Net-Gold] INTERNET: SEARCH: Creative Commons Search


006418 05/04/11 07:04 85
[Net-Gold] Copyright - Mind Boggling - for Teacher and Artist


006385 05/04/08 12:44 216
[Net-Gold] PSEUDONYMS: Nom de Guerre


006190 05/03/30 07:00 190
[Net-Gold] $18 Million Settlement to Freelance Writers Filed for Court
Approval: ASJA Contracts
Watch, March 29, 2005


005994 05/03/17 16:46 29
[Net-Gold] Professor's Online Publishing Experiment


005977 05/03/17 06:49 107
Re: [Net-Gold] Professor's Online Publishing Experiment


005536 05/02/17 06:41 173
EDUCATION: K-12: CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS : COPYRIGHT:
RESOURCES: Places to Learn About Use
of Resources in the Classroom in Terms of Copyright and Intellectual
Property Issues


002914 04/12/03 06:54 179
MEDIA: ORGANIZATIONS: The Center for Social Media


002437 04/11/04 16:58 100
[Net-Gold] Bittorrent Consuming More Than One Third of Net Bandwidth


002315 04/10/28 06:50 133
[Net-Gold] Mother of All Languages Goes the E-Way


002264 04/10/25 00:46 120
Resource: C-Span: Profiles of Candidates & Election Day Resources

001590 04/09/07 06:02 92 [NetGold] INTERNET:
DOCUMENTATION: Internet Archive: Related Projects and Research


000188 04/06/09 02:12 91
INTERNET: DOCUMENTATION:
Internet Archive: Related Projects and Research

===========================================

Or search Royalty Free here:

<http://snipurl.com/ckq4>

and find these results:

Search Results:
NET-GOLD: 2 matches.
Item # Date Time Recs Subject
006227 05/04/21 14:55 636
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PICTURES: ARCHIVES : ANIMALS: Some Websites With Animal
Photograph and Picture
Collections


000165 04/06/07 00:59 53
EDUCATION: K-12: STUDENTS : INTERNET: GRAPHICS: CLIP ART: Original K-12
School Student Clip Art


I hope that you have all been taking good notes.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@astro.temple.edu
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
<http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
<http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org>
World Business Community Advisor
<http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org>

[David P. Dillard]

Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:49:43 -0600
From: George Lessard <me...@web.net>
To: media...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Net-Gold <Net-...@yahoogroups.com>, David P. Dillard <jw...@temple.edu>
Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT: FAIR USE : COPYRIGHT FREE: Sources Listing and

About Royalty Free Music and Other Media

Also try copyleft

Results about 2,970,000 for copyleft
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-gb&q=copyleft&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Dictionary
http://www.answers.com/copyleft&r=67
cop·y·left (k?p'?-l?ft')
n.

A form of licensing that encourages the distribution of software at
no charge for noncommercial uses.

[David P. Dillard]

Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:31:32 +0200
From: Claude Almansi <claude....@bluewin.ch>
Reply-To: Net-...@yahoogroups.com
To: Net-...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Net-Gold] COPYRIGHT: FAIR USE : COPYRIGHT FREE: Sources

Listing and About Royalty Free Music and Other Media

David P. Dillard wrote:

> COPYRIGHT: FAIR USE :
> COPYRIGHT FREE:
> Sources Listing and About Royalty Free Music and Other Media

> On the EDTECH discussion group that is a part of H-Net, there has been an
> interesting discussion and presentation of sources of royalty or copyright
> free music resources on the internet. I suggest, however, that one search
> the archives of that discussion group for recent and past posts about
> royalty free and copyright free as content on this subject in general may
> be helpful by application to copyright free as applied to music sources
> and one may also want now or later copyright free art and other media.

> EDTECH (H-Net) Home Page
> http://www.h-net.org/~edweb/

(...)

Hi David

Thank you for this wealth of resources on copyright free music.
Copyright is already complicated, but author's rights applied to music
is a maze, because music doesn't exist per se, like a painting for
instance, but through interpretation.

And thus interpreters are in turn "co-authors", whose rights - royalties
in particular - are often administered by the same society as the
original author's (composer's). In Italy, for instance, the competent
society is Società di Interpreti, Autori ed Editori, SIAE. "Interpreti"
does not only cover musical interpreters, but also actors and
translators in the case of a publicly performed work, who are entitled
to a percentage of tickets'sale and of royalties for broadcasting a work
and on the sales of CDs.

Traditional European broadcasting entities usually pay a yearly lump sum
for music to whatever is the equivalent of SIAE in each country. They
still have to keep a detailed (to the second in theory) log of all music
they broadcast, so that the lump sum can then be subdivided between the
various right holders.

Now with internet broadcasting forms - streaming and podcast for
instance - applying this complex system may not be feasible. But it
still exists, so far.

And it is one point where "copyleft" initiatives like Creative Commons
(CC) <http://creativecommons.org> or Licence d'Art Libre (LAL)
<http://artlibre.org/licence.php/lalgb.html> may encounter concrete
application difficulties.

In fact, the societies like SIAE who manage rights for performing arts
tend to impose their copyright license model and are not likely to
accept autonomous license choices by authors: this issue came up in the
LAL translators' discussion list last year. And though the brillant
cartoon on the CC site, with a young composer putting her song under a
CC license (see <http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/how1> and
ff.), works egregiously to explain how these licenses work - things
might not be as easy for a composer in the concrete world (at least in
Europe).

Nevertheless, these copyleft licenses may well be showing the only
possible path in the double maze of rights administration for performing
arts and of the new proliferation of broadcasting possibilities. CC more
than LAL, because LAL is a one-version-only rather conservative
adaptation of the GNU Free Documentation License, whereas CC licenses
are made of modules, and could thus evolve more flexibly.

(Another advantage of CC is that you can search for content under a CC
license at yahoo, under <http://search.yahoo.com/cc> (see George
Lessard's "[Net-Gold] YAHOO ADDS SEARCH FOR CREATIVE COMMONS CONTENT"
28/03/2005. And the search engine of Creative Commons itself
<http://creativecommons.org/find/> allows you to search the Internet for
a particular type of work (any - audio - image - interactive - text -
video) under a CC license, and its results come with symbols showing at
a glance which CC license has been chosen).

NB: I'm not a lawyer; the above is based on:

- nightmarish SIAE form filling for sharing the equivalent of the price
of a cup of coffee each time a play my husband and I had translated got
performed by an amateur company at an almost deserted parish hall;

- my daughter's similar red tape experience in Switzerland about a
Russian play she translated for a Geneva theatre;

- some free lancing for radios (state and commercial);

- a long e-mail discussion about LAL and CC licenses last year, between
members of www.ynternet.org and promoters of the LAL.

- mainly lurking at the CC-icommons mailing list (archives at

<http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-icommons> - see also

<http://www.creativecommons.org/projects/international>).

cheers

Claude

--

Claude Almansi

http://www.adisi.ch
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages

[David P. Dillard]