[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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