Creative Commons is a licensing system under which authors or producers of a work offer some of their rights to others to reuse their work under certain specified conditions.
The licence is attached to the content and is available in various forms allowing the rights holder to retain a level of control over how their work is treated.
CC licences have various advantages, including ease of use, widespread adoption, choice and flexibility, human-readable, machine-readable and symbolic representations of the licences, and a direct link between the resource and its licence.
Amplified Steve on 10 Jun 10"Tunited is a UK based music platform, dreamed up by Midge Ure. Bringing together various elements of services like Drowned in Sound, Bandcentral and MySpace, the site will be part shop, part social network, designed for both for listeners and artists. The creators are placing a strong emphasis on ethics and independent music culture, equating it to a 'fairtrade iTunes'."
