On 03/04/12 09:06, Kris Calabio wrote:
I'm sure a lot of you have experience distributing your music under a Creative Commons license so I'd like some of your thoughts. My band finished recording a full length album recently, and we are planning on releasing it under CC-BY-NC-SA. Our plan is to sell our album with a "Name your price" deal. But if you choose to pay over a certain amount (like $12 or so) you also get a T-shirt and a sticker (or some other sort of gifts). We have done something like this in the past with our demos. We gave them away for free but also accepted donations. A lot of people paid us nothing, but a few people were quite generous!
I think that's a great way to go. I recently put my latest album up on Bandcamp as a name-your-price download with no minimum price, not really expecting to get anything from it, but some fans were indeed generous! Selling merch (or even CDs or vinyl) can be great way to boost sales, too, from what I've seen.
How do you make money with this sort of license?
I don't think the licence really makes much difference in terms of sales. If you're popular enough, people can and will copy your music regardless of what licence is on it, so the fact that it's legal to do so (within the licence terms) with CC licences doesn't really change anything.
Either way, the people that want to support you will, and the people that don't want to support you won't.
Things are a little more complicated when it comes to other sources of money, such as licencing for TV, film, advertising, etc. if you're interested in those. The NC clause protects you here, though, since it prevents such people from using your music for free in most circumstances. Since CC licences are non-exclusive, you're still free to negotiate separate licence deals with anyone that does want to use your work commercially.
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