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Can I use a CC "non-commercial" licensed music track in a video to help crowd-source finance for a film?

Jinan C

12 years, 1 month ago - Jinan C

Hi shooters,

I'm about to create a project page on a crowd-sourcing website, to raise money for the completion (post-production) of a film I made, and I have to upload a video preview. I have a question about the use of a "non-commercial" creative commons licensed music track in this video:

The license is under Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike. I know that these licenses are fine for a film being screened at film festivals, but I'm wondering how a crowd-sourcing website would be categorized?

Would this now count as commercial use, if I put one of these tracks in the video in order to gather donations? I'm not personally making any profit but I'm a little unclear about the rules here, and just want to be sure.

I'd be very grateful for any clarification! Thanks a lot.

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Yen Rickeard

12 years, 1 month ago - Yen Rickeard

Hi Jinan,
when in doubt, play it safe. Contact the supplier (I know this can be hard, but persevere) and tell them what you are trying to do. In this case I would think that they would be pleased to see it out there, and a reference to them would be enough, but ask them first, then you know you are covered. And always make a copy of their response and save it with the rest of your legal docs.
Good luck with it all
Yen Rickeard

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John Baker

12 years, 1 month ago - John Baker

Crowd funding is a commercial promo but with written permission you can do anything. Usually people who mark their stuff CC make it easy to contact them as with that license, it is usually because they want their stuff to be heard/downloaded/used in other stuff.

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Jinan C

12 years, 1 month ago - Jinan C

Thank you Yen. That sounds very wise, I think I will contact them, just to be safe... :)

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