Reply To: Creative Commons Question
Okay, that’s pretty much what I thought, I was just wondering if it being a mere cover (or, just for the sake of knowing whether the same rules apply, a parody) of the song rather than their recording of it would make a difference. The two parodies I linked to in my Sep 15th 2008 are licensed Creative Commons (or at least, they’re on a site where everything else is CC, and there’s nothing marking these as exceptions) but then they’re also being sold for money, so I presume they struck some kind of deal with Valve.
In fact, if those two parodies are CC, then technically if I wanted to write a parody (rather than a cover) of Still Alive, I guess I could just say that I was parodying the CC-licensed parodies rather than the non-CC-licensed original song. I might ask the FuMPers what the deal is, and whether those parodies are really CC.