Creative Commons has announced a "Creative Commons Music Sharing License".
It is not a radical new license, since the conditions are just that of an ANN license, which is shorter and easier to say than "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeWorks" license.
There are some additions in the legal code that clarify the "NonCommercial" part in Article 4 d) and e) for musical compositions and sound recordings. However, the title of the legal code is not "Music Sharing License", but "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0".
There is no warranty as a default.
Evan Prodromou has some critical comments. He says that too many different license options might confuse users and dilute the Creative Commons brand.
On the other hand, the "Music Sharing License" really seems to be only one way to present the ANN 2.0 license, not a different legal code from an ANN 2.0 license the author of a book might use. On the other hand, going to the ANN license over the "choose license" page still leads to an ANN 1.0 license, so right now there is a difference between a "Music Sharing License" and a normal ANN license. We will see if that difference will disappear eventually with the upcoming general update of all licenses to 2.0.
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There's a lot of rare and hard-to-find titles there. You'll see them on:
http://www.torontochristianbooks.com/cassette.htm
http://www.torontochristianbooks.com/records.htm
http://www.torontochristianbooks.com/demorecs.htm
http://www.torontochristianbooks.com/oldcds.htm