[cc-community] cc licensing of covers of ARR songs?
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Wed Jan 14 22:29:51 EST 2009
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 22:07:21 Jessica Coates wrote:
> The Australian licence is in s55 of the Copyright Act 1968. It's
> implemented by APRA/AMCOS, our main music collecting society. Here's their
> information on it:
> http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/musicconsumers/makingrecordingsretailsale/maki
>ngaoneoffrecordingforretailsale.aspx
>
> It's intended to allow cover songs, but it's a pretty complex provision -
> AMCOS, for instance, seems to think that it would let you musically
> interpret the work, but not change the lyrics or create a parody.
>
> As for Drew's comment about better education materials - most definitely we
> could do with more information out there about downstream licensing and CC.
> I touched on this (though from the other angle) in relation to derivatives
> under the BY and BY-NC licences in my presentation at the Legal Day in
> Sapporo.
>
> The problem is, it really is ridiculously complex, and not always
> intuitive, how downstream licensing works. Writing it all up in a way that
> is useful to artists will be quite a challenge. Particularly when we're
> talking about things like licensing under statutory licences, which change
> from place to place. I suspect in the end we might have to resort to at
> least a bit of 'ask your licensing body'. And from experience I know even
> they don't often really know how their licences work.
Perhaps then we might come at it from another angle:
X is safe.
Y is safe.
Etc.
The rest is iffy, ask as you say.
???
>
>
> Jessica Coates
> Project Manager
> Creative Commons Clinic
> Queensland University of Technology
all the best,
drew
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