This featured web site is a great little site for all us musicians who want to release our tracks for distribution on the internet (or anywhere else). When releasing our tracks most of us want our listeners to distribute them around as this is great and free exposure, but it does kind of feel like you’ve either got to copyright your music completely as if it was being released by a major label or just give it away and let anyone do what they like with it. Thankfully this is where Creative Commons comes in.

Creative commons is a non-profit organization which provides pre-written licenses for us musicians (as well as many other forms of licenses for other mediums). All you’ve got to do is go on their web site and choose a license that you feel will work best for you, keeping some of your rights whilst waiving other rights (Some Right Reserved).

I release all my music files and sample files on Rhythm Creation under the creative commons licenses. I believe people find the licenses very easy to understand as Creative Commons provide these very easy to read “Human-readable” versions of the licenses and it really sets out in plain English (or any other language) the rights that you are keeping as well as what you are letting your listeners do with your music.

They also provide you with buttons and links so you can direct people from your Web Site, Blog, My Space or whatever you use to the copies of the licenses. It really is a great way for us musicians who want to keep some rights reserved and not all rights reserved or reversed.