Copyright

The copyright on audio and written material on this website is by Sergio Messina. Most written material can be freely distribuited on and offline as long as it's for NON COMMERCIAL use. For commercial uses (including reprints) please contact the author at ragla@radiogladio.it.

The license for music differs according to type of users. Listeners can download it, back it up and stream it (non profit). Radio stations can legally broadcast it (always including the credits). For musicians my music is somehow Freeware; this is its disclaimer:

Copyright notice: this recording is © 2001 by Sergio Messina, but is free for sampling. You can legally include a portion of it in your composition, providing that you include me in any publication credits (liner notes or mp3 tag) and that the resulting music also becomes free for sampling by adding this disclaimer, with your name instead of mine, to your track - and including my credit.

This means that I retain full copyright for both the music and the recording, but that anyone can legally sample portions of it, provide that they add a credit (contains a sample from...) and extend this freedom of sampling to the resulting piece by adding this disclaimer to their music.

How it works: you keep full copyright of your music with my sample in it. Only, anyone can legally sample a portion of your resulting music, providing that they add a credit (of the last author, in this case you) and extend this right of sampling to others (like I am doing now) by adding the disclaimer at the top of this page (with their name instead of mine, or yours). Brutally: you can sample me as long as anyone can sample your piece, and so on.

This system was inspired by the Free Software and the Viral License documentation, because today sound is also software (more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft).