[cc-community] relicensing
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Aug 12 03:02:53 EDT 2008
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any thoughts on the best way to relicense a file? I have a song that
> I created and released under BY-SA and I need to make it also
> available under an NC license for CC Mixter.
>
> Do I have to make a new version of the file with different metadata?
I really doubt it.
> Can I just do a blog entry saying that I grant a right to use it in an
> NC context?
I don't see why not, but presumably you could even just give one
person permission, privately, to use in a BY-NC licensed work and pass
those freedoms on to the public for the derivative work.
> What would that say exactly?
I don't know that 'relicense' is the right verb, but you can also make
it available under BY-NC or whatever (plain BY would also allow NC
licensing of derivatives). Presumably the easiest and most clear way
to do that if the context is ccMixter is to upload it to that site
under an appropriate license.
IANAL, etc.
Mike
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