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

Lucas Gonze lucas.gonze at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 23:05:12 EST 2008


Cesare, my advice is to not worry about it.  You deleted your page
there so it's not likely to create anything troublesome, and frankly
by-sa is quite restrictive for commercial vendors and they will
probably avoid it.

If your tracks have been on Opsound for a couple years without showing
up in a car commercial or porn video (either of which would have to be
under the by-sa license too, of course), it's not likely to happen in
the future.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Cesare Marilungo
<cesare at poeticstudios.com> wrote:
> 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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