Reply To: Creative Commons Question
So, if I were to record a cover of Still Alive, and mention JoCo and Valve and Portal, it seems unlikely that anybody would sue me over it. And if I made a video to go with the cover, so far it doesn’t look like YouTube would take it down. But what kind of license can I then release the cover under? Creative Commons, or an ‘Its illegal, and so its totally free. Please dont sue me‘ license? One reason I ask is that if I made such a cover, I’d probably want to put it on my podcast, which is hosted on Archive.org via OurMedia (which has this fair use policy), and when you upload to OurMedia there’s a menu to choose what kind of free license it’s under, without an ‘Its illegal, and so its totally free. Please dont sue me’ option.
Or is it better to actually ask Valve? Would contact@valvesoftware.com be the right contact address, and has anybody asked such a question to that email address and received a response so far?