Thursday, October 30, 2008

Re: royalty free songs or jingles

Open licensing is your friend -- the sites below contain a slew of music released under an open license, and you can also open the door to conversations about less restrictive licensing terms than those generally advocated by the RIAA.

http://www.archive.org/details/audio
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Music_Podcasts
http://creativecommons.org/audio/
http://ccmixter.org/

Cheers,

Bill


--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Bill Griscom <griscomb@e-lcds.org> wrote:

> From: Bill Griscom <griscomb@e-lcds.org>
> Subject: royalty free songs or jingles
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 4:26 PM
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have an issue with teachers wanting to use music (mainly
> acquired from iTunes) in a variety of projects. They
> understand that this is a copyright violation, but are
> usually stumped for ways to add music any other way.
>
> They all seem pretty comfortable with the idea of generic
> songs or jingles. Is anyone familiar with loops or songs
> that are available as a one time purchase, similar to the
> ones available for Garageband, which we could provide to our
> teachers and students for use in projects?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Griscom
>
> Director of Information Services
> Lancaster Country Day School
> 725 Hamilton Road
> Lancaster, PA 17603-2491
> 717.392.2916 x. 246
> griscomb@lancastercountryday.org
>
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