Creative Commons for Musicians

Creative Commons

Oct 2013

Music Bridges in Vanuatu

Soohyun Pae

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Jamendo

Nine Inch Nails● Released ‘Ghosts I-IV’ under

CC BY-NC-SA

● 9 tracks for free, entire album for $US5

● Sold $US300 ‘ultra-deluxe lim-ited edition’ & Netted $US1.6 million

● “We began improvising and let the music decide the direc-tion...the end result is a wildly varied body of music that we're able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed - from a 100% DRM-free, high-quality down-load, to the most luxurious physical package we've ever created.” — Trent Reznor

Jonathan Coulton

● Has become a profes-sional musician by releas-ing all his work under CC license

● Makes half a million a year with no record label

● Through donation from fans & live performances

● “Sure, I’m niche. But there are a lot of niches out there for others to find, with more forming all the time. After all, he says, that's what the In-ternet is.”

Yeizon

● Korean hip-hop group with successful com-mercial career

● Works with a record label

● Releases some tracks under CC license as a side project

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