Don't be a like a me and send a doc to someone to sign with provisions for New York or CA.

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Bold Mail

This one's from a long time supporter of Church Films, and it's a great question:

I wanted to ask you about music for films and creative commons licenses . Have you used music with these licenses and if so, did you have to credit the music a certain way?

Sure have, and I love public domain jingles. These are also known as CC0 works (essentially). You will never have any problems with those guys, and you can find some on

YouTube Audio Library

Vimeo Audio Library

Free Music Archive

Internet Archive

Because I'm going to reference these sites a few times, let's just call them the Ole Boys for now.

With public domain tunes, you can drag them through the mud, remix 'em, fail to credit the original author, and do just about anything short of claiming them as your own or anything shady like that.

Public domain tunes are the least restrictive.

The next tier up would be the attribution and sharealike tunes. Any combo of these guys are okay for most microbudget filmmakers, so long as you credit the original author and DO NOT claim them as your own. That should always be a given.

If it's on YouTube, I'll include a text description in the bottom, below the video player:

"ThisMusicTrack" by Uncle Bob: http://unclebobsmusic.com

If you have titles at the end of your flicker show, add a credit to the author and a place to find it.

And because we are in the people business (you and me), here's the extra mile I want you to walk: contact the author and let them know.

What?!?

Yes, it's good for relationship-building, and you need that more than you need another nofilmschool.com article, another piece of gear, or yet another lighting tutorial on YouTube.

Make the asks, serve, shoot, over-deliver, ask for more.

That's your job.

Now, sharealike jams have one more restriction: