[cc-community] Licensing and the submission process?
Jon Phillips
jon at creativecommons.org
Wed Oct 17 13:33:11 EDT 2007
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:17 -0400, Marcus Estes wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I work for WFMU, a freeform non-commercial radio station, and I'm
> currently managing a campaign to license a good deal of recorded music
> under Creative Commons licenses (see:
> http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-first-fruit.html).
>
> We're currently developing a simple web application that will
> facilitate web-based submissions. But I need advice about how to
> handle the thousands of recordings that we already have archived from
> live sessions over the years.
>
> When I have a physical copy of a recording that does not exist on the
> web, what is the best way to assist the artist in licensing that
> recording under CC? Could an email from them stating the tracks names
> and context under which they were recorded, along with "This work is
> licensed under the Creative Commons [insert description] License. To
> view a copy of this license, visit [insert url];" suffice?
It is good to be more specific on the license and just link to the
license where it is stated: This work is licensed under a <a
href="http://creativecommons.org/license/by/3.0">Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0</a>.
> We're studying the CC Contribute application for inspiration. Any
> additional thoughts on strategies a third party may use to help
> facilitate licensing would be appreciated.
Others have thoughts?
Marcus, it would be great to see some screenshots, mockups or urls for
people to see and make comments on...
Jon
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus Estes
> Licensing Director
> Free Music Archive
> WFMU
Hi Marcus, I talked with Ken Fields previously about this effort. Feel
free to (ab)use me as a resource to getting this implemented :)
Jon
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