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  • From: Kevin Shrieve <kevin AT lumiere.net>
  • To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: by-nc-sa with commercial rights to a collective
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:24:07 -0800

I am interested in forming a collective of artists (starting with musicians) who would use an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license with an agreement that commercial rights for their works and derivatives would belong to the collective. The organization would work at building a system of supporting creative tools for the collaborators (and file format specifications to maximize interchangeability) as well as energetically attempt to sell the creative works.

The expectation is that eventually, allotting relative authorship (and distribution of profits) would become impossible (or too much trouble) to work out, and that we would therefore not attempt to accurately distribute the bulk of the funds collected, but use them to enhance the services that the organization could provide to the collaborators.

I know that a lot of questions arise that would need to be answered for this to take root and thrive in the real world, but what I am hoping to get feedback on here is how to approach the licensing.

If we use the by-nc-sa license, then (I assume) each and every person who participated in the evolution of the work would need to give approval for the terms of the commercial use. I suppose all members could agree when joining the collective that any works submitted to the pool would be licensed with CC's by-nc-sa and that commercial use of them would be handled only through the collective. Do you think this is the best approach for realizing what I have in mind?

Would Creative Commons have any interest in a variation of the by-nc-sa license that allots commercial rights to an entity ("X") that is to be named in the blank space provided by the license?

Thanks for any help thinking this through.

Kevin Shrieve

http://www.mp3.com/DreamArtScience/




  • by-nc-sa with commercial rights to a collective, Kevin Shrieve, 11/18/2003

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