Re: [microsound] Fwd: Creative Commons (Was RE: Podcast feedback?)

[Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo,
cyborgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx hat gesagt: // cyborgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Honestly, the legality of things is about the last thing I worry about
> when I DJ or even do my own sets, it's guaranteed that some of my samples
> are "illegal", I say who cares, it's just capitalist bull$#!+ anyway...
> ;-]

Well, in practice, everyone of course plays (netlabel) music with and
without permission. But if it's among the goals of these netlabels to
foster sharing and playing together, then choosing the NC-license is
wrong, IMO. If they want to "fight the big companies", then the
license would in fact need to leave the sensible legal world even more
and include stuff like "allowed for commercial use, but not if you're
a big evil company." 

To me personally the way out is to explicitly allow commercial use of
my music, *but* use a Copyleft catch, which is the ShareAlike in CC or
the viral aspect of the GNU Pulic License for software: Every
derivative work has to be licensed under the same terms and has to
allow free distribution and commercial use by others. That is, if
Microsoft would use my music in a TV ad, they would be allowed to do
so, but only if everyone then would be allowed to use the Microsoft TV
ad in the same way and built further works on it. 

Actually that could be fun. 

I have no idea if this could really work for artworks, but so far, CC
didn't even really try it. Plus: now CC themselves might even have
become an obstacle for people, who would like to try it.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

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