Choose Your License

A few general points about the Creative Commons Licenses are:

  1. Copyrighted content can be sold under creative commons license. Its important to know that licensing your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. You will own all the rights to your work. It basically means offering some of your rights to any member of the public who uses this medium to purchase your songs.
  1. For Attribution licenses you can demand that your name is removed from attribution if you do not approve of the way your music is used.
  2. Licenses are Non Exclusive which means you can choose another license for the same work and also different licenses for different works.

License 1

Attrbution 2.5 India

* Free to: Share and Remix your work
* Condition: Attribution.

ex: ABC licenses his/her work an Attribution license. XYZ can reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate the Work, publicly digitally perform ONLY condition being that the work is clearly attributed to ABC.

Easily understandable License summary
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/)

Link to Complete Legal Code:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/legalcode

License 2

Attribution Non-Commercial 2.5 India

* Free to: Share and Remix your work
* Conditions: Attribution and Non-Commercial

ex: ABC licenses his/her work an Attribution- Non-Commercial license. XYZ can reproduce, distribute, communicate the Work, condition being that the work is clearly attributed to ABC AND work CANNOT be used for commercial purposes.

Easily understandable License summary
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/in/)

Link to Complete Legal Code:
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/in/legalcode)

License 3

Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India

* Free to: Share
* Conditions:Attribution , Non-Commercial and No Derivative Works

ex: ABC licenses his/her work an Attribution- Non-Commercial No Derivative Works license. XYZ can distribute, communicate the Work, condition being that the work is clearly attributed to ABC AND work CANNOT be used for commercial purposes AND the work cannot be remixed, transformed or built upon.

Easily understandable License summary
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in/)

Link to Complete Legal Code:
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in/legalcode)

License 4

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 India

* Free to: Share and Remix
* Conditions: Attribution, Non-Commercial and Share Alike

ex: ABC licenses his/her work an Attribution- Non-Commercial Share Alike license. XYZ can reproduce, distribute, communicate the Work, condition being that the work is clearly attributed to ABC AND work CANNOT be used for commercial purposes AND if the work is transformed or altered it can be released under the same kind of license.

Easily understandable License summary
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/)

Link to Complete Legal Code:
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/legalcode)

License 5

Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 India

* Free to:Share
* Conditions: Attribution and No Derivative Works

ex:ABC licenses his/her work an Attribution No Derivative Works license. XYZ can , distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate the Work, publicly digitally perform condition being that the work is clearly attributed to ABC AND the work cannot be remixed, transformed or built upon.

Easily understandable License summary
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/in/)

Link to Complete Legal Code:
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/in/legalcode)

License 6

Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India

* Free to: Share and Remix
* Conditions: Attribution and Share Alike

ex: ABC licenses his/her work an Attribution license. XYZ can reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate the Work, publicly digitally perform ONLY condition being that if the work is transformed or altered it can be released under the same kind of license.

Easily understandable License summary
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/)

Link to Complete Legal Code:
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/legalcode)

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