So here's how Creative Commons works:
Goto:
http://creativecommons.org/license/
and select your license. Mine is thise one:
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
This means you are free to download my music give it to your friends whatever, and you can remix and make derivative works, but cannot use those works for commerical purposes, in other words profit from those works.
So if someone makes it big with a remix of one of your tracks, you can waive the restrictions and negotiate a new agreement for commercial use.
A similar licence is the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported which is exactly the same except:
"Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one."
I think this spirit is at the core of the maketunes community, it would be a good idea to integrate the music upload proccess with the ability to choose a CC license. And it should probably be restricted to at least Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported, which means it's legal to download and share the music.


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YEs but does it cost anything to apply the commons right to each song or is it something the artist just chooses?
Nope, it's all free.
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There are also sampling licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/about/sampling
http://creativecommons.org/about/sampling-movie
But you only have to worry about using these if you are already selling your music.
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OK, so the guys at CC are all about explaining stuff in simple terms, here is a great page to understand it all:
http://creativecommons.org/learnmore/
I especially recommend the videos:
http://support.creativecommons.org/videos
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Great stuff bro. I hope other people view this information.