I am interested in using music and artwork from a Creative Commons-licensed album in a video game. The exact license on the album is Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike. The game will be free to download and will have a credits screen, so the Attribution and Noncommercial elements should be easy to cover. However, given the way the Share Alike element works, and the fact that Creative Commons licenses are not recommended for software, will this even be possible to do?
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Use of CC work in a video game
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Posted 5 months ago #
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I believe that the 'share alike' part of a license is more to do with remixing. If you are not editing, re-cutting or changing the music in any way (just playing it as background music) and the game does not directly sync to it, I think this is allowed. It's a tricky area though.
To be safe, you should really just contact the creators of the music and ask them if they mind. It sounds like you are using the music in the spirit of the license, so they'll probably say that they don't mind.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Well, under the Share Alike license, if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. Hope this helps.
Posted 1 month ago # -
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Thanks for this information.Posted 1 month ago #
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