[cc-community] Remixes, covers?

Marcus Estes marcus at wfmu.org
Thu Oct 18 16:26:46 EDT 2007


> If you wanted to CC license a cover of a non-CC
> licensed song, it wouldn't really work. Even though your contribution (the
> recording of the song) would be CC, there's no way to actually separate the
> two out.

I'm not sure I agree. The CC license specifies:

"'Work' means the copyrightable work of authorship offered under the
terms of this License.

Because both the sound recording and composition are copyrightable
then it seems one could isolate them and license them under CC.

This has huge ramifications for our project. Is it your understanding
that if the owner of Sub-Pop records walked into my office today and
wanted to CC-license their whole catalog that they couldn't because
they don't own the compositions? That would be no good.

Marcus

> On 10/18/07, Marcus Estes <marcus at wfmu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I need help clarifying an ambiguity when licensing music under CC.
> > Wouldn't permitting derivations be implying a different use, depending
> > on what type of ownership the licensor represented?
> >
> > For instance, it seems that an owner of the master recording could
> > permit remixes with a by-nc-sa, while it would take a composer
> > licensing a composition under by-nc-sa to allow cover versions.
> >
> > Is this right?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marcus
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