[cc-community] CC licenses and recording rights for music
Gavin Baker
gavin at gavinbaker.com
Tue Dec 18 11:04:30 EST 2007
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jonathon wrote:
[...]
> For a church to not have to pay royalties the only material that can
> be legally used is "public domain". (For technical legal reasons, none
> of the CC licenses allow the creator of the work to waive collection
> of royalty payments.)
This is also dependent on jurisdiction, isn't it? See
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3#International_Harmonization_.E2.80.94_Collecting_Societies
> [A]s regards compulsory royalty collection, the licensor will reserve
> the right to collect these royalties in those jurisdictions in which
> this cannot be waived. In those jurisdictions in compulsory royalty
> collection can be waived, it will be waived completely for those
> licenses that permit commercial use and reserved only for commercial
> uses in those licenses that permit noncommercial use only.
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Gavin Baker
http://www.gavinbaker.com/
gavin at gavinbaker.com
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