[Cc-uk] collecting societies and creative commons

Rob Myers robmyers at mac.com
Fri Oct 15 08:33:15 EDT 2004


In the US licenses, section 3e of the SA and BY licenses specifically excludes collecting rights.
The US NC license doesn't do this.

This makes sense as with SA you are getting "paid" in derived content and with BY you are getting "paid" in reputation. With NC you are reserving the right to commercial exploitation so you need your collecting rights unsullied.

For me the interesting thing (in the future) would be to get rights societies policing correct use of CC content, either for a fee from licensors, for sponsorship from donors, or for a cut from any settlements. This could be a major growth area for the societies.

- Rob.
 
On Friday, October 15, 2004, at 01:04PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

>Recently someone raised the question of the attitude of collecting societies 
>to Creative Commons. Under (some) CC licenses the collecting society, I 
>believe, will not receive any revenue. Is this correct and if so will 
>collecting societies oppose CC licenses? For example it was said that in 
>Germany the main collecting society had forbidden its members to release CC 
>work (is this true?).
>
>Regards,
>
>Rufus Pollock
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