[cc-community] Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music
Burobjorn
burobjorn at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 05:39:07 EST 2007
Interesting point. My first thought was to solve this using the
following idea (I wrote this in a hurry, so excuse my tech jargon..)
1) Make sure the license is attached to the work (presuming it stays on
the net..). For an mp3 this means embedding the license info in the
id3tags. For a pdf this would probably mean using XMPF? Etc etc.
2) Make sure the attribution includes a certain mark/label/hash which
has a significant chance of being unique. For instance an sha1 hash of
the filename including your own namespace.
3) Make it easy for spiders, robots and search engines (such as
Google/Yahoo and the like) to plugin in a CC lib which allows for easy
access to CC metadata. Create a CC spider as a proof-of-concept so
others will use the lib.
4) Start spidering and counting the distribution of your work.
Ok, so this is just a first thought and there are numerous ways in which
this will fail, but perhaps this is a first step towards thinking about
solutions for this? I don't think we can easily solve this for those
relying on ad-revenue, but for organisations that need to show that they
have indeed distributed their work all over the world it just might work.
All the best,
grtz
BjornW
Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> This potential "conflict" between CC licensing and the request not to
> re-distribute the content is interesting, as it is the same
> difficulty as the one that Open Democracy has with CC licensing: in an
> online world where views/hits/clicks count, re-distribution is against
> the interest of the publisher.
>
> I have encountered the same issue in Poland, with an NGO that is
> unwilling to use CC licenses, even though they fully support the idea -
> because their financing depends on success of the site measured in page
> views - and therefore they cannot encourage the spread of content beyond
> their site.
>
> These are cases where interests of the artist and the publisher diverge.
> For the artists publishing under CC on RCRD LBL, for instance, once they
> released the track, it makes no difference how far it spreads. (Unless
> they get a share of ad revenue - it's unclear to me whether that's the
> case here).
>
> So I am wondering whether this will prove to be a difficulty for CC -
> the fact that our licensing scheme in a way goes against the grain of
> the ever more popular, ad-based model for sustainability of project.
>
> As a side note: it's an interesting strategy - to supplement the legal
> tool, which the CC license is, with a non-binding, non-legal request.
>
>
> >alek.
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