[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Aug 5 18:38:18 EDT 2008


On Tuesday 05 August 2008 17:56:09 Lucas Gonze wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:13 PM, jonathon <jonathon.blake at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An NC license is the only Creative Commons license that allows a
> > musician to collect royalties.  As such, they can easily show
> > financial harm.
>
> An attribution-sharealike license allows the musicians to collect
> royalties on all reproductions that aren't under the same license.
> For example, if attribution-sharealike is used on a song which is in a
> commerial, and the commercial itself isn't under that license, then
> the commercial is an unauthorized use which is just as liable as it
> would be material not under a permissive license.

Sure, but only the NC option lets you collect royalties for 
usage "unde/withinr" the license, right? And only for the "top" copyright 
holders, right? (Anyone further down would be making use of statutory 
licenses and not the NC license right? If not, please explain for someone who 
is slow on the uptake with this angle.

Would such a commercial need the copyright holder's permission for the use 
(ie. could the use be denied?) or is this subject to a statutory license (in 
some places)?

all the best,

drew





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