Tubed BY You
Music for Film Project


ccMixter is becoming recognized as one of the best sites providing music for film. At YouTube alone, a search for “ccmixter” results in more than 7,000 results! The demand for accessible, free, quality music for video is high.

We think building our catalog of music that video makers dip into will give ccM artists more opportunities to have their music heard. And, we believe increasing our ‘music for film’ catalog under CC BY license will better ensure our music is used in accordance with the different CC licenses.

As this project is aimed at increasing the “music for film” catalog, it is focused on new submissions.

TIMEFRAME:

Stem Phase: Aug 29-Sept 10. Focus on creating CC BY samples and stems for film.

Remix Phase: Sept 10-Sept 24: Focus on CC BY remixes for film (feel free to start remixing right away!)

GOALS:

Increase the ccMixter ‘music for film’ library

While all styles of music at ccM are used in videos, instrumental and ambient music seem to be the most used as soundtracks.

Increasing CC BY licensed offerings will allow video makers maximum flexibility and increase artist visibility.

Make it easier for video makers to find music for their projects

Tagging, curating and licensing are ways in which we can facilitate use of our music.

Searches for commercially available music for film at dig.ccmixter.org continue to increase.

Educate users on proper use of CC-licenses

Through ccM trackbacks and correspondence, we’ve learned video makers are not always clear on how to use CC-licensed music.

We want to help the video-making community understand how to use cc-licensed material, with an emphasis on Attribution and the right differentiation between CC BY, CC BY NC, etc.

Engage the ccMixter community in efforts to ensure our music is being used according to license terms

We have observed increasingly that “NC” licensed tracks are appearing in videos that support commercial endeavors in one way or another. While the admin team tries to stay on top of usage of ccMixter music outside of license terms, the community’s involvement in this effort will really help.

Choosing CC BY or CC BY NC is always an artist’s choice, but by increasing the number of remixes intentionally created as CC BY for film, we’ll give video makers choice too – and a better chance at understanding CC licenses overall.

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We hope to get a record number of contributions to this project! We’re also reaching out to YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu to educate them about the different CC licenses, attribution and the growing ccMixter ‘music for film’ catalog.

Thanks Susan! I’m looking forward to this project, as it is definitely going to stretch me beyond my usual style. I’ve never done an instrumental track here at ccM, so this will be my first! And I’m going to finally do those vocal samples Gurdonark suggested to me so long ago. :)

Wonderfantastic, Susan! :)

amazing project. i always wanted to create song for film. that’s the chance =]

Awesome project! I’m quite excited for this one… it gives me a great excuse to make some weird remix-able vocal sounds. I love the idea of expanding the pool of CC-BY music. It’s a win-win: more options for film makers and increased visibility to us as individuals and as a community.

just tag it Tubed BY You when submitting the remix?

Great find! And true, even one of my remixes from secretmixer was used in a couple commercials. Kinda like film :D

I also would like to share this video that demonstrates how to find and attribute music from dig.ccmixter. Just a few days before anouncing this event, in one of those beautiful moments of synchrocity, the video maker contacted ccM to make sure we were ok with him posting it online. It fits right into “Tubed BY You.”!

That’s awesome :D I think im going to be delving into my Ambient sounds :D

Can we use already existing tracks with this tag? I’d like to tag my “Golem Cello” music for example…

What a great idea! I hope I have some time to do something. I see many tracks are full mixes which takes away creativity. It would be cool if separate stems were uploaded :)

i don’t like how it shows up twice on my page when i submit something i’ve already submitted. is there any way to fix this? it would be nice if one could simply add the tag to the original.

I’ve listened to the samples and remixes, and wow! Mixters are thinking so much bigger than Vlog theme songs and Ytube cooking show intros… we’re talking movie themes, several good ones so far!

I’ll also be uploading some new samples, but can one of the delightful admins change the following tracks to add them to the sample pool for this project?
* 4 Drones, 1 Madness
* Celestial March of the Alien Fleet
* It was screaming, the whistle wave
* SighFi Masheen Humns

Thanks!

*meow*

heads up tube BY you participants…Creative Commons is looking for remixes of the bands playing at the world summit in Warsaw next week.

Read the announcement here:
http://ccmixter.org/thread/2568

The bands, AX Musique and Masala have uploaded stems in the Tubed BY You event. Enjoy!

The Tubed project is continuing on and will be extended. The header has been temporarily replaced as we honor Joe Lincoln, aka Fireproof Babies, who has just passed away. We are deeply saddened by this tragedy.

I spoke with the director of the upcoming film Rooted In Peace yesterday — we’ve been invited to contribute pells, samples and remixes for use in the film. Will update more soon.

I have thrown together some mash up clips at
http://www.youtube.com/user...
I think it would help if there were some examples of perfect attribution, for example, should the attribution in hard subtitles - under you tube new remix conditions attribution will be lost if the file is copied?
What are the naming conventions for such derivatives if any - for example I discovered a space inside the brackets [ ccMixter] allows the search engine to find it.
An example might also include a BIG FAT warning not to put non-commercial tracks under a youtubeCC license, since non-commercial is not offered by Utube

A reverent thank you to everyone for pausing the Tubed BY You project to honor Joe Lincoln ( FireProof Babies) with beautiful posts and tribute mixes.

The day after Joe’s passing, ccMixter was given the opportunity to create music for the film Rooted In Peace. For me, this feels tied to Joe somehow.

Rooted In Peace is a documentary that asks us to take notice, stop our cycles of violence, and find personal and geopolitical balance.

Rooted In Peace trailer

I spoke with the director Greg Reitman ( SUNDANCE Award-winner documentary FUEL) at length about ccMixter — Greg is looking for a couple of songs to include in the film/soundtrack on these subjects:

- Fear, war & violence
- Environmental degradation
(plastic & other pollution, deforestation, climate change, etc.)
- Harmony with nature
(planting trees, gardens, preservation, etc.)
- Evolution to higher consciousness
- Peace and Love
(interviews with Dalai Lama, David Lynch, Desmond Tutu, etc.)

The film’s composer VIVEK MADDALA has already begun scoring and the music supervisor has already secured songs from John Lennon, Neil Young and a few others. Still, ccMixter has the opportunity to create songs on the above subjects to be included in the film/soundtrack. Greg has promised me at least one track produced here at ccMixter will be in the film.

New Tubed BY You NEW dates:

1. Call for pells on the subjects above until September 30.

2. Remixes of pells and other Tubed BY You stems until October 8.

In addition to this new opportunity, it is still the goal of Tubed BY You to create a library of songs that can be used by other artists in film with a CC BY license. Thank you again for your flexibility with the dates for this project.

Peace.

I agree with economix’s comment above… it may be worthwhile to make it very clear to filmmakers that not all of the Tubed By You submissions are even usable in YouTube videos due to YouTube’s limited licensing options.

As far as I can tell, YouTube only supports CC-BY licensing for videos, not the NC or SA variants. Therefore, CC YouTube videos can only use CC-BY music, and All Rights Reserved YouTube videos can only use CC-BY and CC-BY-NC music. SA music can’t be used at all on YouTube, unfortunately… yet SA music makes up a significant portion of the Tubed By You submissions. It’s also worth noting my bug report because I’m pretty sure we’re not even doing SA correctly.

Other video upload sites like Vimeo offer a more robust selection of CC licenses and may be a better choice for filmmakers that cannot or do not want to use CC-BY.

I know that CC-BY licensed music was pointed out as the focus and intent of this project all along, but since there are so many submissions under other CC licenses reiteration may be a good thing.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Tubed BY You project. And a special thanks to everyone who contributed a remix to Fireproof Babies.

Next up, Secret Mixter! Sign-ups start next Sunday.

I am seeing a lot of great music out there and was looking forward to seeing what everyone came up with. Every year I make an end of season banquet video for a mid-west sprint car league. It is the Interstate Racing Association. I have been filming them for 4 years now. I am looking for a mix that starts easy, builds up in the middle and ends slightly down. No lyrics unless it is about racing on dirt :)
I fully respect the CC concept as I also do not like my work being taken without permission. CDK was nice enough to let me use one of his songs and I am looking for more to use. The video wil be 10 minutes max. Some of my racing videos are on You Tube under the user name Dagunner. I did not sell last years video because some of the music I used was CC noncomercial I will keep looking and hope to find some great CC-by or get permission to use and credit the author. Thanks for letting me ramble and I will keep digging!

Jeff

Jeff