Sharing the Addiction

Your kids have made a video and you want that perfect music track to add to the movie but you know that you shouldn’t use a commercially produced music track off of one of your CDs. What to do? There are plenty of ‘podsafe’ music resources on the web and I some listed on the Podcast page of my wiki.

I have now just found another great source of music that it is legal to download and use (as long as you stay within the confines of the creative common licence). I found it while I was watching a video by Michael Wesch and my husband called out from the next room asking what music I was listening to. I jumped to the end of the video and, sure enough, the details of the song were in the credits and it came from a website called Jamendo.

I went and checked it out and was pretty impressed with the way the site was organised and the quality of some of the music that it on it. You can embed a widget from an album that you like so I have one included below (I particularly like the first and third song). I will be using this site a lot I think when making multimedia productions.

Tags: creative commons, music

I have just stumbled over the Creative Commons (CC) Licensing website and I am excited by two things I found there.

The first is the search engine that will search for just CC materials using Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Blip TV and other sites. This is great news! I had known how to do a CC search in Flickr but didn’t know how to search outside of Flickr.

The second thing is a great video that clearly explains copyright and the ideology behind CC.

Now we really can encourage children to work legally.