[cc-community] Ask for help: I agreed to a license by mistake

Cesare Marilungo cesare at poeticstudios.com
Wed Feb 20 20:28:43 EST 2008


Hi,

I'm a musician and since 2004 I started releasing all my music under the 
cc-by-nc-nd license.

One or two years ago (I don't remember exactly when) I made an account 
on a website (opsound.org) which host exclusively cc licensed music and 
I submitted there three tracks. The tracks were just linked and they've 
always been hosted on my own server and on my website it has always been 
clearly stated that everything was under by-nc-nd.

The problem is that I didn't notice that in the opsound.org license page 
it was stated that all the content there should be considered either 
by-sa or public domain. I haven't seen any agreement or anything else 
that warned me about this. All the other websites that let you upload 
your music only require that you're the copyright holder and that you 
give them the permission to use your material on the website and you 
retain the freedom to remove the tracks and break the contract at any time.

Now, the problem is: I didn't want to release these tracks as by-sa. And 
I don't want to relicense them on all the websites that host them.

And the question is: what can I do? So far I have removed my page there. 
I've read that you can't revoke a creative commons license, but can I 
still keep the more restrictive (by-nc-nd) license on my own website 
(and everywhere else) for these particular tracks? Or am I obliged to 
change it?

I understand that somebody who got the tracks from Opsound.org when they 
were linked there could use them for commercial purpose, but what about 
other people? Somebody told me that if one of such persons makes a copy 
of one of my tracks to somebody else, the old license is applied. Is it 
true?

Thanks in advance,

Cesare

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