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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Call for more license options - Creative Commons Legal Code
  • Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:25:44 -0500

On Monday 28 March 2005 03:03 pm, Greg London wrote:
> drew Roberts said:
> > Am I wrong that a big RIAA label would be able to take my (C) and (P)
> > song and put it on an album with some works that they have the copyrights
> > to and sell it at a profit and not pay me anything? (with my work
> > released under a CC BY-SA license. Both the (C) and the (P) rights.)
>
> I don't know. I'm not as familiar with the music legal technicalities
> as the software stuff. Maybe someone can answer the technicalities.
>
> But someone could be selling your song right now on their website as
> an individual download.

Do you mean within the scope of the license I have granted with CC BY-SA or
illegally?

> Rhapsody could make it available as part of
> their $9.95 a month subscription with unlimited music. iTunes could
> be downloading it and charging people 80 cents or whatever they charge.
>
> So stopping aggregates and compilations is sort of like turning the
> faucet off on the Titanic.

What's done is done. I am not going to try and fix the past in that way and I
am not going to cry over spilled milk.

I would like the fix the situation going forward with respect to any new work
as much as I can. (Perhaps it is hopeless.) I am not trying to cover my
software in this manner at this point. (Perhaps I never will.)

I think the ideas I gave will cut down on a lot of issues. I don't have any
ideas right not how I would attack the situation of individual song sales?
Forbid sales in stores sleeing other than similar licensed works? Forbid
sales by people who assert non-similar copyrights? Both of those seem like
overkill. Anyone else have any ideas?

all the best,

drew




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