[cc-community] Creative Commons

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Tue Aug 29 20:09:03 EDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 09:55 +0100, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> Quoting Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 18:31 -0400, Siddhartha Gandhi wrote:
> >> Hi, I'm planning to release my machinima videos under Creative
> >> Commons. It is not a racial statement, just a coicindental choice of
> >> colors because red vs. blue is taken, and you can see our blog at
> >> www.xhalofilms.blogspot.com. A preview is located there as well, and
> >> the final episode 1 will be released shortly.
> >
> > Hi Siddhartha, but I'm not sure about the legal validity of releasing
> > machinima videos. This is actually a good legal question.
> >
> > If one makes a machinima film in World of Warcraft where all content is
> > owned by Blizzard entertainment, can one then make a machinima film and
> > then sell and or license that content? I think this is not legal.
> 
> Welll. It could be fair use, depending on your jurisdiction and exactly 
> what you
> do with your machinima. Selling it and licensing it might go against fair use.
> 
> But I recently had an exchange with a machinima group who got permission from
> Bioware to release their work NC
> (http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2006/04/30/223/), so perhaps Blizzard would
> give permission to release this NC.
> 
> - Rob.

Aha, this would be a good thing to document on the ccWiki...help open up
the blood vessels on the ole' machinima groups distribution and
licensing...

Is anyone interested in this that does Machinima?

Jon

> 
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