Using Music from the Free Music Archive in Education with Creative Commons expert Jane Park

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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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!

7. CC LICENSE ELEMENTS  Attribution  ShareAlike  NonCommercial  NoDerivatives

8. 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

9. 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

10. Lawyer Readable Legal Code

11. Human Readable Deed

12. Machine Readable Metadata

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

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

22. AN IDEAL ATTRIBUTION

23. 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

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

25. BROWSE BY GENRE

26. BROWSE BY CURATOR

27. GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE

32. GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE Download

33. GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEARCH PAGE Listen in Pop-Out Player

34. GEOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST PAGE

37. 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:

39. GEOGRAPHY OF AN ALBUM PAGE

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

41. 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/

42. HAPPY HUNTING! contact@freemusicarchive.org