There is also nothing about licensing your own work. Can I create a Creative Commons AT-SA video using this as the backing track? What if I also release all the source to my video under the same CC license? Can someone else that that track and use it in his/her project with the CC-AT-SA license? What exactly is attribution at this point? The video using the track or do you need to credit Filmstro too?
I agree, the FAQ doesn't go into enough licensing detail.
I do like the concept, but I think I'll stick to ccMixter.
Yeah, it is something that is actively being looked at and worked on.
For what it's worth, I think the license is much more critical than being royalty free in terms of value creation. While royalty free is "cool" for generic Youtubers. Professionals and corporations with real budgets have money for royalties and it can be rounding error for the money they spend on lawyers to keep them away from copyright problems. To put it another way, clear and central copyright licensing has the potential to allow the project to move well upmarket. Without it, even free wouldn't look like a bargain to someone serious enough to have a lawyer.
Re:Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music
by ComodoHacker on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:00PM
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Also open air broadcasting isn't mentioned anywhere in plan descriptions.
Isn't it mentioned? If you're looking at the plans page just click until you get to "Choose a License" and it's listed as a feature ("Broadcast: TV, Radio & Online") under the premium licenses.
Digging deeper in the site does not reduce the copyright ambiguity to me because the example scenarios like a corporate entity picking up content containing the music are dealt with vaguely rather than by pointing to clear licensing terms around copyright. The example of "tracks for a friend" is met with "we don't care." Right now, maybe not. But copyright interest can be sold to someone who does care...and potentially someone who cares because pursuing copyright interests is their business model.
None of which is to say I don't think the tech and music is cool. It just seems that the messy details that can come back to bite an artist sit on the hard work left to do list.