GarageBand and Freedom
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 05:09
Because everyone loves a flamewar involving Apple and licensing, AMIRITE? Guys? COME ON!
OK, seriously, though. Instead of running around trying to find music for my games that I think fits the mood I'm trying to strike, I figured I'd try my hand at mucking about with Garageband and some pre-recorded loops. I'm not a musician at all. Does anyone know if it's possible to use Apple's loops in new and exciting ways and then license those generated tracks with Creative Commons? I could only find stuff referring to commercial relicensing, not free relicensing. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2931
If that's too legally murky, I might just try to find loops elsewhere to remix to my heart's delight.
The quoted text itself seems to say nothing about whether the distribution should be commercial or not, nor does it add any limitations to the resulting song's distribution.
I'm pretty sure that it'll work with CC. Of course, you'd better ask someone
moreactually skilled in understanding proprietary license agreements.Big disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
In short, "royalty-free" is usually a big green light for any creative use of the content marked as such; they mention commercial to mean *even* commercial usage won't require further payments from you.
What they point out is that whatever you do must not be a ripoff of the loop library, allowing others to access/extract the single loops.
A similar thread on Freesound about Logic Pro loops made me think of a new hypotetical CC license, Derivatives Only: the loop is mine, what you do with it (ripoffs excluded) is yours :D
On a side note, the linked explanation by Apple's support here is clearer and more human readable than the legalese regarding Logic Pro :)