[cc-community] Remixes, covers?
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Oct 18 17:04:56 EDT 2007
On Thursday 18 October 2007 16:26:46 Marcus Estes wrote:
> > 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.
That would be my take on it... Unless they have some license that is not
linked in to per unit calculations in any way perhaps...
IANAL etc...
>
> Marcus
all the best,
drew
>
> > 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
> > > WFMU
> > > http://freemusicarchive.org
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