Creative commons License

The musical work and sound recording is licensed to the media maker under the 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license, or the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, for short. What does this mean??

Under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, the media maker can:

• Share the music, meaning the media maker can copy and redistribute it in any medium or format.

• Adapt the music, meaning the media maker can remix, transform, and build upon the music.

The media maker can do these things under certain terms:

• Attribution: The media maker must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

• Noncommercial: The media maker may not use the music for commercial purposes (AKA to sell something or otherwise make money)

• ShareAlike: If you change, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your creation under the same license as the original, or under a compatible license.

• No additional terms: The media maker may not add any terms or technological measures that restrict others from doing things that the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license permits.

The musician grants the media maker a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license. What does this mean??

• Worldwide: The media maker can share their work (and by proxy, the musician’s work) unrestricted globally.

• Royalty-Free: The media maker does not pay the musician royalties for use of their music in the media. (Don’t worry, musicians! There are a lot of other plus sides to getting your work synced in a piece of media!)

• Non-Sublicensable: The media maker cannot grant a license to the musician’s song to someone else for the same or any other purpose. Only the musician has the ability to license their work.

• Non-exclusive: The musician has the freedom to continue licensing their work to other media projects as they wish. The media maker doesn’t get the exclusive right to use this song. Other people can - and hopefully will- use it in their media.

The northeastern license

This license has many purposes, which include protecting both Northeastern’s Good Dog facilitators and you, our creative collaborators. In general, we use this license to:

• Allow Northeastern students running Good Dog to share creatives’ original songs and briefs between media makers and musicians.

• Allow us to promote our services by sharing information about successful projects and the creatives behind them, including sharing on social media and on our website.

• Confirm the intent of creatives to collaborate with other creatives under Good Dog services and under the Creative Commons license.

• The license allows Northeastern’s Good Dog facilitators to do things like synchronize and publicly perform the music, briefs, and media projects submitted to us for the purpose of promoting Good Dog and making the service run smoothly and effectively for creatives.

• The license also allows Good Dog to use the names and pictures of creatives for things like posting music in our library and promoting Good Dog on social media.

• Assure Good Dog that we will not be sharing any music or media that belongs to a third party outside of this agreement. We do this by asking you to promise that your music is original and does not contain any samples or other material that you do not own, and that you have the right to sign this license and grant us the rights included in it.

This license also confirms that:

• Northeastern is NOT a party to the Creative Commons license between musician and media maker.

• Northeastern students running Good Dog do NOT use the music or media in any way that is not agreed to under this license.

• When you sign this license, you do NOT give Northeastern ownership- that stays with you and you alone.