[cc-community] CC license for download music
Ed Pybus
ed at slrecords.net
Sun Jun 1 12:29:45 EDT 2008
Hi,
Thanks for those replies - just to give a bit more info. I'm new to CC
but am looking for away to make tracks that I've released available for
free on-line from our website partly since they're mostly available via
bit-torrent etc anyway and partly as a promotional tool for both the
website and the bands involved. And i say it's better to have people
listen to the music for free than not listen to it at all.
It is an important distinction between the 'song' and the recording.
Usually the band have licensed a recording of a track to me (the label).
I can then exploit those recordings (selling CDs, downloads etc) but I
have to pay a fee to the songwriters.
So I now have the recordings which I can exploit so could license them
under a CC license but I don't have the rights to license the song under
a CC license since I have no rights on the song just the recordings.
There doesn't seem to be CC license that I can use that makes this clear
to people who are downloading the song.
Another related question is about the songwriting fee I have to pay - if
I'm pressing a CD I need to buy a MCPS license (I'm in the UK) even if
I'm giving the CD away for free, for downloads via a download site they
take the MCPS fee off at source, and it's a percentage of the price
paid. But what if I give a track away for free? There's no license I can
buy for that and since download MCPS is a percentage of the download
price it would appear that I wouldn't have to pay a fee, but I guess
that's slightly outside the realms of CC
Cheers
Ed
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