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FREE ONLINE MUSIC BOOMS AS SOUNDCLICK OFFERS CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

*Online music community sees over 30,000 songs licensed under "some 
rights reserved" copyright in just one month.*

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San Francisco, CA and New York, NY, USA - Aug. 11, 2004 - Soundclick 
(http://www.soundclick.com), one of the Internet's largest music 
community sites, now offers Creative Commons licenses as an option for 
all songs uploaded to its website.  Soundclick, which sees about 70,000 
song uploads per month, soft-launched the Creative Commons license 
option one month ago. In that time, bands and artists on Soundclick 
have licensed over 30,000 songs, demonstrating a huge demand from 
musicians to declare "some rights reserved."

A list of licensed tracks can be found at 
<http://www.soundclick.com/genres/cc_license.cfm>.

The copyright licenses, provided free by the nonprofit Creative 
Commons, permit fans not only to download music files, but also to copy 
and share them. In return, musicians who license their songs require 
attribution (credit as author) and can specify several conditions, 
including whether to allow remixes, mash-ups, or commercial uses.

The licenses allow artists to harness the power of the Net for maximum 
promotion while retaining certain rights to their work -- while 
signaling clearly to fans what they can and can't do.

"Soundclick's move to offer Creative Commons Licenses is a huge step 
for the world of independent music," said Neeru Paharia, Assistant 
Director of Creative Commons. "The rapid uptake of the licenses proves 
that there is a huge demand from artists to clarify how they want their 
work shared or re-used on the Net. Soundclick has made an enormous 
impact on the amount of music that's available for people to share and 
re-use."

"Opening the licensing process offers new dimensions for musicians," 
said Turhan Canli, Chief Executive Officer of Soundclick. "The system 
developed by Creative Commons is easy to use and understand, even for 
people who have never considered licensing their music. Musicians on 
SoundClick are enthusiastic that they can share their songs this way. 
Being able to legally remix or re-use songs is an exciting and 
innovative option that clearly helps the whole music community. The 
fact that within one month more than 30,000 licenses were issued on 
SoundClick speaks volumes. It's what musicians have been waiting for."

Thanks to the rapid rate of adoption at Soundclick and other similar 
sites, Creative Commons has created the largest pool of openly-licensed 
music on the Internet.  Most of the music can be legally traded on 
file-sharing networks, and much can be used as source material for 
remixes, mash-ups, or even synched to video, as long as the conditions 
of the license are followed. Given the recent proliferation of 
inexpensive media authoring applications, such as Apple's GarageBand 
and Adobe's Audition, much of this licensed music becomes valuable free 
source material from which to build new works.


About Creative Commons

A nonprofit corporation founded in 2001, Creative Commons promotes the 
creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works-whether owned or in 
the public domain-by empowering authors and audiences. It is sustained 
by the generous support of the Center for the Public Domain, the John 
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, and 
the Hewlett Foundation.

For general information, visit <http://creativecommons.org>.


About Soundclick

Launched in 1997, SoundClick Inc. is a privately funded company. 
Incorporated in 1999 in California, SoundClick has become one of the 
largest music communities on the Internet. More than 70,000 new songs 
and 7,000 new bands are added each month, making it the fastest growing 
music community. SoundClick features artist pages, unlimited song 
uploads, CD sales, message boards, charts, and several premium 
services. All standard services for artists and listeners are 
free-of-charge.

More information can be found at <http://www.soundclick.com>.




Contact

Neeru Paharia
Assistant Director, Creative Commons
neeru AT creativecommons.org
+1.415.946.3068

Turhan Canli
CEO, SoundClick Inc
Press AT soundclick.com

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Glenn Otis Brown
Executive Director
Creative Commons
glenn AT creativecommons.org
+1.415.946.3065 (telephone)
+1.415.336.1433 (mobile)
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