Question on OC ReMix license

[Wolvenmoon]

Okay! So I'm a CGI animator looking for background music for my animations, I'll post my understanding of the content policy as it pertains to this question ( http://www.ocremix.org/info/Content_Policy ) and then someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Basically, in derivative works I can use the remixes in any animation I like so long as I provide clear attribution of the remix to www.ocremix.org and the author of the remix.

My idea was to put,while my own copyright to the animation (and characters within it) was displaying in one corner, put the credits in the opposite corner.

Okay, so here's where I have a gray area and want to ask.

I'll be rendering my animations at 640x480 or 800x600 (likely the former) for distribution without charge online. Eventually I may want to release a DVD (or by that time a blu-ray disk) with high definition animations on it. If I did so, I'd be charging - for the compilation of high definition animations - more than just distribution costs. Especially since it is exponential in computing time to render at higher definitions.

Of course, credits would still be displayed at the start. The only difference would be the higher definition and higher quality settings.

Would it still be within the licensing terms to keep the remixes present in the high definition animations, even though the high-def ones wouldn't be available for free?

Also, if I decided to add exclusive animations to the compilation DVD, would I be allowed to use OCremix songs in it?

Thanks for the help! It's so hard to find decent music that they don't charge a huge amount to use in not-for-profit animations. =(

[Liontamer]

Okay! So I'm a CGI animator looking for background music for my animations, I'll post my understanding of the content policy as it pertains to this question ( http://www.ocremix.org/info/Content_Policy ) and then someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Basically, in derivative works I can use the remixes in any animation I like so long as I provide clear attribution of the remix to www.ocremix.org and the author of the remix.

My idea was to put,while my own copyright to the animation (and characters within it) was displaying in one corner, put the credits in the opposite corner.

Okay, so here's where I have a gray area and want to ask.

I'll be rendering my animations at 640x480 or 800x600 (likely the former) for distribution without charge online. Eventually I may want to release a DVD (or by that time a blu-ray disk) with high definition animations on it. If I did so, I'd be charging - for the compilation of high definition animations - more than just distribution costs. Especially since it is exponential in computing time to render at higher definitions.

Of course, credits would still be displayed at the start. The only difference would be the higher definition and higher quality settings.

Would it still be within the licensing terms to keep the remixes present in the high definition animations, even though the high-def ones wouldn't be available for free?

Also, if I decided to add exclusive animations to the compilation DVD, would I be allowed to use OCremix songs in it?

Thanks for the help! It's so hard to find decent music that they don't charge a huge amount to use in not-for-profit animations. =(

Once you start charging for the animations, no, you can't use OC ReMixes as the background music or invoke the site in the credits. Even if it a paid bundle of the content featured exclusive animations not using OC ReMixes, because you'd still be asking people to pay for media with the community's music on it. But you could always try to contact individual ReMixers whose styles you enjoy and attempt to license some original works of theirs. They would likely give you some reasonable terms, perhaps even terms similar to ours, i.e. free as long as you provide explicit credits/links.

[Wolvenmoon]

Thank you! This is really awesome that you guys keep it under this open of a license.

[prophetik music]

i'd be willing to compose if you decide to charge for it. i do a lot of for-profit work already.

[Wolvenmoon]

I plan on getting to a point where I take commissions from individuals for smaller animations, but it probably will be years before I'm good enough to release anything of my own work for a profit (I.E. BD-rom), but when I do take commissions I intend on requiring commissioners to provide their own music and their own licenses to it if they want BGM, as well as sound effects. (It's a lot of work finding it where I can use it myself when no money changes hands.)

So if I do have any commissioners that want their own music, I'll definitely refer them to you.

[prophetik music]

i wasn't clear on my first post. i meant to say that i'd be willing to compose even if it wasn't for profit. that really didn't come across very well =)