Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that makes an array of music available for the public to share, use and edit. They have various licences that enable the authors of the product to say which rights they own and which rights that they want to make available for the public, therefore giving both parties the opportunity to get what they want.

The Creative Commons website layout.

Firstly, you search the genre of music that you want to use. Under the search bar there are options that enable you to filter the type of media you want. These options are: use for commercial purposes and to modify, adapt and build upon. This gives the user a chance to chose exactly what they want to do once they acquire the file that they want. In addition to the, the website also provides you with the chance to chose the medium that you want to use in order to search, play and download your file.

The result of me searching for hip hop on the Creative Commons website using the medium of SoundCloud.

I searched for hip hop in the Creative Commons browser while using SoundCloud as a medium. The results provided me with various hip hop titles ranging from instrumentals to mix tapes. The results that correspond with my search preferences from the Creative Commons website are available for download, whereas I am unable to download the others.