{"id":176,"date":"2016-11-04T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tootsbook.com\/tootsbook\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-11-18T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:39:17","slug":"volunteering-highlight-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tootsbook.com\/tootsbook\/2016\/11\/volunteering-highlight-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering Highlight: Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Musicians<\/strong> can contribute their performances to Tootsville, whether original or remixed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tootsville.org <\/strong>is being built entirely by volunteers.<strong> Volunteering Highlight<\/strong> is a bi-weekly column where we explore some of the things that volunteers can do to help with Violet Volts, the project that produces Tootsville.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tootsville&#8217;s tagline has always been, \u201cLet&#8217;s Make Some Noise!\u201d The music in Tootsville is drawn almost entirely from sources in the Creative Commons and public domain. This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tootsbook.com\/tootsbook\/2016\/10\/music-of-tootsville-the-carnival-of-animals\/\">classical music<\/a> and other contemporary sources who have released their works for remixing.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a composer, or create remixed works under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> license, your music can appear in Tootsville, too!<\/p>\n<p>One important thing to remember when finding Creative Commons works that you can remix for Tootsville: we cannot accept any contributions that don&#8217;t allow for further remixing (<em>no<\/em> \u201cCC-ND\u201d licensing). That&#8217;s because playing music within a video game is considered a form of remixing (called \u201csynchronization\u201d) itself. That means, if you&#8217;re remixing other people&#8217;s music, you can\u00a0<em>not<\/em> use any sources that have a \u201cND\u201d (\u201cno derivatives\u201d) option, either. This option appears as a circled \u201cequals\u201d sign on the Creative Commons license badge, like this: <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nd\/4.0\/88x31.png?w=780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Creative Commons Licence\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be running a special contest asking musicians to record their own performances of the \u201cLet&#8217;s Make Some Noise!\u201d theme song in 2017, as well \u2014 so you might want to start thinking about that! 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