[cc-community] ccMixter license support (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Sun Nov 18 19:43:31 EST 2007


On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 19:00 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
> On Sunday 18 November 2007 17:52:27 Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > For new uploads http://ccmixter.org/media/submit (acapellas and samples
> > -- remixes are constrained by the material being remixed) on BY and
> > BY-NC are supported.  I believe this was done in order to maximize
> > ability to reuse content within the site.
> >
> > There are some [nc-]sampling+ and BY-NC-SA tracks on the site from
> > earlier in the site's history and Magnatune contributions.
> 
> That is how I understand things as well. However, a parallel site with only By 
> and BY-Sa licenses would also  maximize ability to reuse content within the 
> site.

Nobody's stopping anyone from starting such a site.  NB if you're a
ccMixter user and logged in, the site is now conducting a survey at
http://ccmixter.org/media/survey explained at
http://lessig.org/blog/2007/11/ccmixter_thinking_about_where.html

> In fact, were CC to do both sites, they could even share the BY tracks between 
> both sites...

Or only have one site that allowed both. :)

> I am not sure why there is so much resistance on CCs part to this simple idea. 
> It makes me wonder if there is some dislike of BY-SA somewhere within the CC 
> organization... Is there?

BY-SA is my third favorite license (counting PD as a "license"), but
that's just my personal opinion.

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