Creative Commons
Being involved in music, copyright is a large concern. Most of the time, the number of copies of a musical piece that must be purchased is stipulated and the printed music is never to be copied unless permission is given. There have been a few times that due to extenuating circumstances I have found it necessary to contacted a publishing company to ask for rights to perform a musical piece. Permission has always granted because it was for an educational establishment and a fee to attend the performance was not going to be charged.
Creative Commons makes sharing materials a much simplier process. We can share our ideas using Creative Commons and still have a license for how other people that use our work can edit or modify it for their use.
No matter what type of copyright, the most important thing to remember when using material created by others is to give credit to the person that created it.
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