[cc-community] Lessig's response to ASCAP's Christmas 10 Things....

Kevin Phillips (home) tacet at qmpublishing.com
Tue Jan 1 11:19:03 EST 2008


For those of you who are out getting drunk or doing something constructive 
over the new year (hehe) you may have missed Larry Lessig's response to 
ASCAP's Christmas 10 Things......

http://lessig.org/blog/2007/12/commons_misunderstandings_asca.html

For the most part I agree, but uh oh, NC got a mention......I posted my 
response on Larry's blog, please feel free to correct me where needed.  Far 
be it from me to exhume old bones, but I think the whole NC thing (for music 
specifically) is turning into such a huge tangled mess (even ASCAP don't 
seem to understand it).

Is it just me or should there really be two NC licenses.....

1) an NC license specifically for cross-over, so signed/registered artists 
can interact with non-signed/non-registered artists and everyone knows the 
score.  In other words, ccMixter hosts audio from DJ Vadim, a signed artist, 
I can remix and interact with his work.  I can NOT sell his work, or our 
work, not even if I contribute the lions share. I can not earn any kind of 
income, direct, indirect or otherwise.  If by some miracle the work is 
played on commercial radio he gets his ASCAP fee.  ok, great.

How about CD (for Commercially Derived) ?

2) an NC license specifically for CC (unsigned/unregistered) artists who do 
not intend to collect fees.  Where NC really DOES mean non-commercial in ALL 
senses, all fees are waivered, nobody has the capacity to earn.  Ever.

(btw if I just saved Creative Commons $300,000 I expect attribution, lol ;)

Happy new year all,

Kev 



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