[cc-community] CC licenses for music: PA vs. SR?

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Aug 7 17:08:22 EDT 2007


On Tuesday 07 August 2007 01:49 pm, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Patrick Godeau wrote:
> > Greg Dekoenigsberg a écrit :
> >> So here's the situation.  We've got a local radio station here in
> >> Raleigh, WKNC.  It's affiliated with N.C. State University, and it's a
> >> registered non-profit.  [...]
> >>
> >> In fact, they are now looking to get a bunch of local musicians together
> >> to jam out on a series of live broadcasts, and they're trying to
> >> convince the artists to release the resultant performances under a
> >> Creative Commons license.  Probably NC-ND.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm curious to know how do you comply with CC license requirement to
> > make clear to listeners the license terms? Do you tell the name of the
> > license after each song? Do you read the full license URL?
>
> It's a fair question.  My guess is in the traditional radio way: play a
> set and then announce who the artists were. 

I don't think that is a safe legal answer. I would like to be wrong however.

From by-nc-3.0:

4.a. You may Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work only under the terms of 
this License. You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier 
(URI) for, this License with every copy of the Work You Distribute or 
Publicly Perform.

> Add to that a license 
> soundbite: "those recordings are all licensed Creative Commons, Non
> Commercial, No Derivatives.  For more information, go to
> creativecommons.com."  Or something like that.

You have to include a copy of the license (basically impossible) or the URI 
for the license with every copy you Publicly Perform.

URI: (from wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

Now, I have always figured you would need to give something like:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/Generic/

Does anyone think you could just give something like:

CC BY-NC-3.0-US ?

Also, you you need to give such a notice after each song is played to live up 
to the "with every copy" language, or would giving it after a block of songs 
sharing the same license be good enough? If so, this would make playing songs 
with different licenses a bit more of a pain.

I would love to find out that this is all much more simple than I fear it is.
>
> --g

all the best,

drew
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