The Open Audio License is a
free music license created in 2001 by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.
It provides funds for legal defense in court, ...
(EFF).
It provides freedom and openness of use for
music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
and other expressive works. Publication of the first version of the Open Audio License spurred the creation of the original
Open Music Registry to support the license and provide a directory for finding works released under the license.
Adoption of Creative Commons licensing
The EFF now encourages artists to use the
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has release ...
Attribution-ShareAlike license instead of the Open Audio License, and it "designates the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license as version 2.0 of the Open Audio License."
The Creative Commons licenses express the same principles as the original Open Audio License—a recognition that some creators want to make their works available to the public on less restrictive terms than copyright's defaults, with permission to copy, distribute, adapt, and publicly perform their works.
References
External links
Version 1.0 of the EFF Open Audio License
The following sites provide content under the Open Audio License:
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Open Audio License media on Commons
Free content licenses
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