I've foud this sit, www.jamendo.com where you can download w lot of freely distributable music under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ license. This should be a cool resource for games-music! (and leisure-music too)
I know of this site, and it's an amazing site for music. It's basically mostly (if not all) free music, even if used in a commercial project.
I'm a supporter of Creative Commons licensing, but I must admit I've always found the ShareAlike clause a bit suspect. What exactly would this mean for a game published using this music?
The website's down :(
Quote from: GarageGothic on Wed 02/12/2009 04:21:16
I'm a supporter of Creative Commons licensing, but I must admit I've always found the ShareAlike clause a bit suspect. What exactly would this mean for a game published using this music?
Difficult one.
Quote from: Creative Commons FAQ
Does my use constitute a derivative work or an adaptation?
It depends. A derivative work is a work that is based on another work but is not an exact, verbatim copy. What this precisely means is a difficult legal question. In general, a translation from one language to another or a film version of a book are examples of derivative works. Under Creative Commons’ core licenses, syncing music in timed-relation with a moving image is also considered to be a derivative work.
All Creative Commons licenses allow the user to exercise the rights permitted under the license in any format or media. This means, for example, that under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported license you can copy the work from a digital file to a print file, as long as you do so in a manner that is consistent with the terms of that license.
(link (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FFAQ#Does_my_use_constitute_a_derivative_work_or_an_adaptation.3F))
So I guess technically speaking any game using music licensed for Share Alike would also have to be shared alike. Don't know if that means you have to release the source code, or whether you're just not allowed to complain if people start ripping sprites, music etc out of it.
Anyway, nice find, I'll have a look through the site later.
http://www.free-stock-music.com offers free tracks (even for commercial purposes)
Sorry to necropost, but thought it's relevant...
I just been to Jamendo, thinking I would try and find some music for my game, but apparently they don't have free music anymore. :~( And they have such great music in there, that I was sure I would find something that would work...
Guess I need to find me a new place for free music... I'll start with that free-stock one.
EDIT: Okay... Jamendo is confusing me totally.... Apparently they do still have free music under CC, just not free for commercial purposes, which they sell licenses for.