mint media is licencing all its work under a CC licence now.

Well, I’m really happy to announce that we’ve decided to licence all of our work, as far as possible, under a Creative Commons (CC) licence from 2009 on.
We have been inspired by a project determined to promote CC-licenced music. “Jamendo” enabled us to pick great songs totally free and use it for our latest project “BVSA TV“, video-on-demand for the basketball association of Saxony-Anhalt.

When we covered the All-Star-Day it was clear that the videos had to go online. But what to do if you or your client don’t want to pay for the (enormous expansive) royalties? Hit the free way!
Jamendo provides thousands of tracks, some better than others, but all really professional. And the advantage of licencing under CC is on both sides: clearly we got inspiration out of impressive songs. Tough the muciancs gained more popularity and are one step closer to a label deal or something else. And even greater is the fact that German mediamakers worked together with songwriters and creatives from all over the world.

Of course we already knew what CC is, but couldn’t quite value the service until we realised how great such a small action can be. Setting up a Creative Commons licence doesn’t take a minute.
Now mint media intends to licence all of its videos under a Creative Commons licence from January 1st 2009 on. Non-commercial projects are aloud to copy, distribute, transmit and even adapt the work by attributing us as the original rightsowner and sharing the material alike.
We‘d like any of our customers to join us on that purpose. We noticed that this won’t be possible at all the time. That’s due to the fact that we’re not doing mint media only to be creative. We are working for our clients and it’s not in our interest to force them to something. We designed a concept paper, which will now be attached to any offer. If the customer is willing to go CC we won’t hestitate to publish the content.

This blog is by the way licenced under Creative Commons (BY) since its beginning. Join the movement, too!