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[microsound] interesting legal/licensing developments at scene.org [nexsound.org mp3 host]
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- Subject: [microsound] interesting legal/licensing developments at scene.org [nexsound.org mp3 host]
- From: derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:46:23 +0100
Hi all,
I just got an interesting notice from Andrey Kiritchenko about
Scene.org, the host of the mp3 files for Nexsound.org. Seems that some
people who have uploaded their work to Scene.org in the past for free
have turned around and sold the same tracks, and have come back to
Scene.org demanding that their material be removed. [I'm pretty certain
this has *nothing* to do with any Nexsound artists, BTW!]
While I find this an entirely slimey way to do business, I do appreciate
an artists' right to control the distribution of their work online. All
in all it's a tricky issue to figure out: should the artist be forced to
accept that their work is now in the "public domain", or should they
have the right to rescend that and not be allowed to sell their work
under terms which remove it from the this domain?
Scene.org has responded tho this catch-22 by applying a specific
Creative Commons license to all work in their archive past, present and
future:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
I find this whole development very interesting, as it says a lot about
"the scene's" current commercial aspirations and the "use value" of
posting your work in the public domain. You can get the whole story here:
http://www.scene.org/discussnews.php?item=275
as well as on their front news page:
http://www.scene.org/news.php
best,
derek
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