[cc-community] avoiding the CC licensing path by rights users

Michael David Crawford michael at geometricvisions.com
Thu Apr 10 13:15:58 EDT 2008


I have been contacted by six or eight people who asked permission to use 
my music in various ways, most often to accompany videos.

In every case but the first, I granted them permission on the condition 
that they credit me by name as well as link to my website.

The first time this happened, I told the guy he had to place his video 
under the by-sa license as that's what's required by my music's license. 
  I never heard from him again.

I've decided that it's good for me to allow "somewhat commercial" use 
this way - in return for credit and a link.  I've been working for quite 
some time to build traffic to my site, and the best way to do that is to 
get people to link it.

However, I don't want to just grant permission for "highly commercial" 
use unless I get a cut of the proceeds.

I've been thinking of posting a page on my site that encourages 
"somewhat commercial" licensing - but I'd have to make clear that you 
need my specific, written authorization.

What's your take on this?

My music page is #19 at Google for "michael crawford".  I aim for it to 
be number one, but the British actor owns nine of the top ten spots. 
Thus you can see that links would be very valuable to me.

I definitely want to encourage licensing in exchange for links, but I 
don't want someone to use my music for a prime-time TV ad unless I'm 
paid - and handsomely so!

Regards,

Michael David Crawford
michael at geometricvisions.com
http://www.geometricvisions.com/  <-- Creative Commons Piano Music


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