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Why is the Creative Commons Sampling+ license being used for these audio files, which AFAICT mostly consist of single samples that would usually be used as-is? My understanding is that the Sampling+ license is mostly designed to only permit use in a larger work with significant modification or truncation -- as in, one would put one's entire piece of music under Sampling+, and then other people could heavily pitch-shift a one-second fragment of the chorus and make it an ostinato or something. The license doesn't seem to make any provision for using the audio directly for music creation, for instance, unless that's supposed to count as an "insubstantial portion" of the result.

I'd like clarification of this too. Personally I wouldn't use anything without substantial modification - it's not satisfying to me to use stuff as-is.. I prefer to make something new out of it (I would justify it by uploading my own self-made material for others to use however they want).

I guess common sense covers this, but it is a grey area which should be clarified.

After reading the license again I think that pretty much anything is covered as long as the author is given credit.

I wouldn't mind some clarification on the following part of the license however:

"You may not use this work to advertise for or promote anything but the work you create from it."

Does this effectively mean that you can't use this stuff in advertising (i.e. all commercial use except advertising is allowed, except for an advert for an artistic work which includes a CC licensed sample). I personally don't work in advertising, but there will be many contracted sound designers who do this kind of stuff, who should probably know where their legal position is on this one.

i think you interpret that right (or the same way i do at least)... if you want to sell your song made from these samples to a ad agency, you need to get additional licensing from the sample owners.

I know about this problem and we need to think about it again. Other people advised chaning to the attribution-only license and perhaps we will have to.

I will get back on this.

- Bram