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MUSIC FOR EDUCATORS
Presented by the Free Music Archive & Creative
Commons
Cheyenne Hohman & Jane Park

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WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO
 Jane Park
 Creative Commons
 Cheyenne Hohman
 Free Music Archive

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THE FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE
 Started as a repository for free & Creative
Commons-licensed music, including live recordings
and Public Domain tracks
 Affiliated with and founded by WFMU

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WHY USE THE FMA?
 It’s free!
 It’s always growing!
 It’s the largest curated repository for Creative
Commons music online.

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CREATIVE COMMONS
 Established in 2001
 Offers custom licenses to add to copyrighted work
 CC licenses are an expression of copyright, not a
waiver of it
 Basic intro to CC, what it is, how it works, examples
of use in education

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CC OVERVIEW
 We make sharing content easy, legal, and scalable.
Why?
 Traditional © was designed for old distribution
models before the Internet. But now, it’s easier to
create and share than ever before.
 Legally, it’s not so easy. It’s confusing!
 CC makes it easy. With CC licenses, creators can
grant copy and reuse permissions in advance.
 We offer six licenses and two public domain tools.
We’re a nonprofit so all are free for you to use!

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CC LICENSE ELEMENTS
 Attribution
 ShareAlike
 NonCommercial
 NoDerivatives

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CC LICENSES
 CC BY
 CC BY-NC
 CC BY-SA
 CC BY-NC-SA
 CC BY-ND
 CC BY-NC-ND
 More info at http://creativecommons.org/licenses

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PUBLIC DOMAIN TOOLS
 CC0 – for you to waive your rights in a work
 Public Domain Mark – for institutions, like
museums, to mark work that has passed into the
public domain
 More info at
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain

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Lawyer
Readable
Legal Code

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Human
Readable
Deed

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Machine
Readable
Metadata

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SCENARIO A: STUDENT PODCAST
 To help students learn how to use audio equipment,
editing software and build storytelling skills, you
want your students to produce short podcasts.

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SCENARIO A: STUDENT PODCAST
 To help students learn how to use audio equipment,
editing software and build storytelling skills, you
want your students to produce short podcasts.
 You can use music under these CC licenses:
 CC BY
 CC BY-SA
 CC BY-NC
 CC BY-NC-SA

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SCENARIO B: STUDENT FILM
 To help students learn how to use video equipment,
editing software and build storytelling skills, you
want your students to produce short films.

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SCENARIO B: STUDENT FILM
 To help students learn how to use video equipment,
editing software and build storytelling skills, you
want your students to produce short films.
 You can use music under these CC licenses:
 CC BY
 CC BY-SA
 CC BY-NC
 CC BY-NC-SA

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SCENARIO C: STUDENT REMIXES
 You want your students to take existing works and
mix them into something new.

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SCENARIO C: STUDENT REMIXES
 You want your students to take existing works and
mix them into something new.
 You can use content under these CC licenses:
 CC BY
 CC BY-SA
 CC BY-NC
 CC BY-NC-SA

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NOTE:
 If your students are not remixing, but just using a
work verbatim without making any changes, then
they can use content under any of the CC licenses,
including CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC-ND.
 Example: A student finds an image of a snake
under CC BY-ND and puts it in his report about
snakes. He does not change the image and
provides correct attribution to the creator.

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JANE [USING CC LICENSES IN STUDENT
WORK]
 Students can find CC-licensed music on FMA and
other kinds of media on other platforms
 Students should give credit to creators of CC
licensed materials they use!
 Students can also choose a CC license for their
own work

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Best Practices for Attribution: (TASL)
 Title
 Author
 Source – Link to work
 License – Name + Link
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution

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AN IDEAL ATTRIBUTION

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ATTRIBUTING MUSIC IN VIDEO OR AUDIO
 Have a credits page at the end of the video that
displays all relevant info
 Publish a web page with credits info. Provide link to
web page at end of video or in the information
section if video is hosted on a third-party platform
like YouTube
 Mention all credits within video itself visually or
verbally if it’s a podcast

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FINDING STUFF ON THE FMA
 Browse by Genre
 Browse by Curator
 Use FMA Search interface

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BROWSE BY GENRE

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BROWSE BY CURATOR

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE
Download

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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE
Listen in
Pop-Out
Player

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GEOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST PAGE

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CONTACTING AN ARTIST
 Do a web search
 Look for website listed & search for “Contact”
 Look for “Email this artist” button/contact link on an
artist page:

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GEOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST PAGE

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GEOGRAPHY OF AN ALBUM PAGE

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ATTRIBUTION - TASL
 Title
 Author
 Source - usually a URL.
 License – abbreviations are OK
Via CC Wiki

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OTHER PLACES TO LOOK FOR MUSIC
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sound
 http://search.creativecommons.org
 https://www.jamendo.com/en/
 http://dig.ccmixter.org/
 http://soundcloud.com/

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HAPPY HUNTING!
contact@freemusicarchive.org