[cc-community] CC / Webcasting, round II
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Jul 23 16:23:22 EDT 2007
On Monday 23 July 2007 02:01 pm, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 19:57 -0700, Eric Garner wrote:
> > If SoundExchange demands DRM on all webcasts in
> > exchange for lower royalty fees (as seems to be the
> > current direction of things), this would essentially
> > illegalize the streaming of any CC'd music, right? If
> > so, I wonder if this was a sly move on SE's part or if
> > it's just an unintended, anticompetitive benefit. DiMA
> > and SE are hashing it out right now, but I haven't
> > seen the effect on CC even brought up. Seems it would
> > add some more weight to DiMA's anti-DRM argument.
>
> I suspect (but I totally unqualified to do so, take with a massive grain
> of salt, and not representing CC) that playing a track under a
> compulsory license that requires DRM would not mess with CC -- the CC
> licenses are non-exclusive, so the track would simply be played under
> the compulsory license, not the CC license.
This would allow people who use BY and BY-SA and ND to collect if they join a
collection society that is willing to be flexible. (Not that I like this but
it might be one consolation if it is not shot down or worked around.)
>
> That said, a DRM stream would make it impossible for a webcaster to play
> some tracks under the CC license
Is this really technically necessary? Or could a DRM stream format be
developed that would allow flags to set and unset the "encryptedness" of the
stream?
> (eg if the webcaster is noncommercial
> or the tracks allow commercial use) and therefore not pay SE for those
> tracks -- the webcaster would have to pay SE for everything, or play
> only CC licensed tracks on a non-DRM stream. In that sense perhaps your
> characterization of "anticompetitive" is correct.
Hey, could this also have the "side effect" of putting Free Software players
out of the game as well?
>
> Regardless of CC impact, requiring DRM is just another way to kill net
> radio.
all the best,
drew
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