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CcMixter
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| Opened: | 2003 |
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| Pricing: | n/a |
| Platforms: | Platform independent |
| Format: | MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3), Advanced Audio Coding (.aac), OGG Vorbis (.ogg), FLAC (.flac), WAV (.wav) |
| Restrictions: | Creative Commons License |
| Availability: | Worldwide |
| Website: | www.ccmixter.org |
ccMixter.org is a community music site that promotes remix culture and makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative works. Visitors are able to listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in a variety of ways including the download and use of tracks and samples in their own remixes. Most sampling or mash-up web sites on the Internet stipulate that users forgo their rights to the new song once it is created. By contrast, the material on ccMixter.org is generally licensed to be used in any arena, not just the ccMixter site or a specific contest. The ccMixter site contains thousands of samples from a wide range of recording artists, including high profile artists such as Beastie Boys and David Byrne (musician).
Some ccMixter sound files might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it.
As a cultural phenomenon, ccMixter represents a direct response to what some say is the increasingly litigious attitude of organizations like the RIAA—one which prevents artists from appropriating elements of others' work for creative reuse in their own.
ccMixter is a project of Creative Commons and maintains close organizational ties to Magnatune Records.
- "Share The Wealth" -(article from Remix Magazine by Eric Steuer about the ideals behind ccMixter)
- "'Copyright criminals' look to remix the noise—legally" -(article from ZDNet by Daniel Terdiman about The Copyright Criminals Remix Contest)