[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses
jonathon
jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Sat Aug 2 13:57:34 EDT 2008
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 09:23, Fred Benenson wrote:
> In other words, if you want to release under NC but you don't want a collecting society making money off of your work, then why bother with a collecting society in the first place?
In most places outside of the United States, the collecting society
will collect royalties, regardless of the individual's membership
status. Payments are made according to the membership status.
> The "waiver" was added to make CC licenses compatible with collecting societies. It makes it possible to release under CC and still be a member of one. Do you object to this?
AFAIK, the only license that has achieved any degree of acceptance
with collecting societies is the CC-BY-NC flavors. You can probably
count the number of collecting societies that accept that license on
one hand, with fingers left over. Far more common is the position
that you, as an artist, have no rights at all, in even attempting to
dictate any terms of any kind, without our express authorization, and
consent, when it comes to the collection of royalties. The only
agreement we accept, is the one we drafted.
xan
jonathon
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