Music legal stuff -unf-

To read the page for yourself :3 http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/licenses/

Publishing rights indicate that you must speak to the publisher of any music as they own the copyright for the music rather than the artist themselves, recording rights indicates that you most likely have to have the permissions of the composer or lyrics writer to use the music in the film.

you can clear a piece of music by checking it's copyright laws, for example a popular song on the radio will most likely have an army of lawyers ready to make sure you're not using the music without permission, and to get permissions you will need to talk to the publishers or whoever owns the copyright, once you have your permissions and they understand what you're using the music then you can use it for what you got permissions for.

the composer of a song -or whoever owns the copyright now- has to have been dead for 70 years before the copyright is abandoned and nulled, the licences can be picked up though, so don't assume that it's royalty free because they're dead.

incidental music is music that could be heard in the background but was not intentional or used in the film in any plot points and not noticed, for example walking through the street and someone's playing it out their window and you catch 5 seconds of audio with the song in, however you have to be careful, as if it's too much you can still get screwed in court.

creative commons is an act that allows people to share their work in a creative way by copywriting it using creative commons, their work can be allowed to be used but with different rules associated with them, for example some allow you to use them with credit, basically allowing the use of their work but if you grant them credit in the work that you used it in. there are licenses that allow people to remix or tweak the work however the remix can't be commercialised and sold.

creative commons exists to help artists control their own work more so that there was available with a regular copyright, maybe they wanted to see what the community has to offer in terms of remixes and tweaks to their work, and creative commons allows people to do that and gives artists freedom to choose what happens to their work

there are six different types of creative commons licenses, here they are in order:

Attribution 

this allows people to remix and adjust your work and even sell it on after as long as you are credited for the organ of the content.

Attribution-NoDerivs 

this allows people to redistribute your work commercially and not so, as long as the work remains unchanged and you are credited 

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

allows people to remix and tweak your work but cannot be commercially and you have to be credited, and any work created under this licence has to be given the same licence.

Attribution-ShareAlike 

allows people to remix and tweak and build on your work and even sell it on, as long as you are credited and the work created from anything with this licence is also given the same licence, this is the licensing wikipidea uses.

Attribution-NonCommercial 

allows people to remix and tweak your work as long as they credit you, they have to be non comercial works after but works created do not have to have the same licensing.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 

the most restrictive of all the creative commons licenses, work can be downloaded and shared, as long as you credit the creator, the work can't be changed or commercialised, however. 

the music that i chose is "modern vibes" by Kevin MacLeod

i chose the song after searching for a suitable song for a while and it seemed to fit the gap in the film nicely with it's slightly mysterious and magical feel. the sounds sound mostly made up of digitally created sounds and some kind of xylophone with bells making a simple melody that is slightly jarring but in a good way for my film.

i got my information from here:

http://whiterabbitisme.wordpress.com/tag/why-is-creative-commons-important/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/before-you-start/music-rights