[cc-community] ASCAP VS CREATIVE COMMONS

Joichi Ito jito at neoteny.com
Fri Dec 22 19:29:56 EST 2006


Mia, is the US the only country that is allowing this?

Basically, the argument that I heard was that because most rights  
collection agencies do a blanket fee. Therefore the cost of dealing  
with venues saying, "I only played songs that were CC licensed" or  
artists saying, "I'm only licensing these songs from that album"  
would be high and add a great deal to the complexity. What are the US  
rights collection agencies doing different that allows them to have  
artists use CC licenses?

  - Joi

On Dec 23, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Mia Garlick wrote:

>>
>> The current situation would be:
>>
>> 1) An artists cannot use a CC license AND be a member of a collecting
>> society, at least in The Netherlands and as far as my (limited)
>> knowledge goes this is the same for the rest of Europe (Although I
>> belief the UK is different in this).
>
> the UK is not different.  the situation in the US is different.

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