Choose Your Sampling License Options

The Sampling licenses let you invite other people to use a part of your work and make it new.

For example:

• To take a sample from your song and include it in their own.
• To use a clip from your film.
• To take a piece of your photograph and put it into a collage.

Think of it as a way to reward people for transforming your work into something it wasn't before.

On certain conditions, that is. There are three flavors of the Sampling license. Pick the one that reflects your creative style:

	Sampling: People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Copying and distribution of the entire work is also prohibited.
	Sampling Plus: People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed. Hence, "plus".
	Noncommercial Sampling Plus: People can take and transform pieces of your work for noncommercial purposes only. Noncommercial copying and distribution (like file-sharing) of the entire work are also allowed.

Jurisdiction of your license (more info )
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Tell us the format of your work:
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Click to include more information about your work.

title of work
description
creator's name
copyright holder's name
year of copyright
source work URL

 

• Note: The sampling license isn't just for music. It can apply to all types of copyrighted work: images, film, etc.
• Before you apply the Sampling License to your work, make sure you have the authority to license all the rights involved. Musical works, for example, often consist of multiple copyrights (composition, recording, lyrics).

If you want to invite people to make any commercial re-use of your work — transformative or not — you should consider either the Attribution-ShareAlike license or simply the Attribution license.