Creative Commons grey-scales

I was looking for more music last night for the newest installment of my wolf piece. (Don't get excited; it's no where near done.) I was using a site called http://freemusicarchive.org/, which is a very cool database of billions of songs you can listen to and download. Cool! They are all licensed under Creative Commons (but don't let it fool you, as it did me!), so you can post them on your blog, give them to other people, whatever. I found two songs I loved, perfect for the mood of my game: No Words for Green Blues and There is a Wolf. I was so pleased by these songs and to be promoting these artists by crediting them in my work. Unfortunately, I was listening to these songs in list view. The links above are to the song pages, which clarify what niche of the Creative Commons License these artists want to use. If you look at the fine print, it says, "No Derivative Works", which usually means no remixing, but probably includes using it in your art game. I was crushed.

And as much as I like the FMA website, there is no link to contact the artist for permission, and there is no way to search within categories for songs you can remix. (You can search by word and license, but not category. Dumb.)

So I scrapped that site for my project. I wanted to get the songs down ASAP, since I was, in good faith, following the copyright, but when I realized I wasn't, immediately remedied it.

My game has two new songs now. They are good, but not exactly the same vibe I was going for before. And I appreciate Dan-O for his free music, but grind my teeth he requests you credit his music "Free Royalty Free Music by Dan-O". Free-royalty-free sounds like a joke-phrase. Oh well.

Poll: did the game get too hard? I'm having trouble beating it, and I used to be able to all the time. Can you win it?

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