Copyright confusion in music compo #24
Description
Music compo rules say:
*All entries must be 100% original and unreleased. No covers, no remixes, no copyrighted samples or other copyrighted material.
*If you are using Creative Commons or Public Domain material, state so in your entry form and cite the source! Do not forget to give credit where credit is due!
This is written in general music compo rules and repeated in tracked music compo rules
The text cited above is confused because it first says that copyrighted material should not be used but then next it implies that Creative Commons material can be used.
But now the use of Creative Commons licenses is based on copyrights. Creative Commons license means that the author has copyrights to their work but they nevertheless let other people to use that work (possibly with certain reservations). Further, if a participator makes their own samples (or whatever content) it also becomes copyrighted automatically and those copyrights cannot even be totally renounced under the Finnish law.
The easiest way to avoid this confusion is to speak about "restrictively copyrighted samples or other restrictively copyrighted material". This formulation would make a difference between restrictively copyrighted material and Creative Commons material where the use is allowed despite of existing copyrights. I think this terminology would be clear enough to avoid the above mentioned problems.