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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: [cc-licenses] CC Sampling Plus to BY-SA
  • Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:38:32 -0500

Can anyone amoung the designers of the sampling plus license comment? What
licenses are safe to use if you make a new work containing material licensed
under a sampling plus license?

all the best,

drew

On Thursday 16 February 2006 11:42 am, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 07:43 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
> > I was having a discussion in irc (freenode) in #lad (linux audio
> > developers) with thorwil as to whether you could use samples from a
> > sampling plus licensed work in your mashup/etc (legally) and then release
> > your resulting license under a BY-SA. Thoughts? It seems to me, you could
> > release under any license you want so long as you lived up to the
> > requirements of 3.a.(i&ii). Am I correct or mistaken?
>
> My understanding (IANAL, blah blah) is that you may be correct in a
> narrow sense but mistaken for practical purposes. You might be able to
> release under by-sa work that incorporates sampling+ work so long as you
> comply with sampling+ terms for the incorporated bits, but because by-sa
> license properties are not a (more restrictive) superset of sampling+
> anyone who accepted the by-sa license from you would be misled about
> their rights, which would not include using the bits that incorporate
> the sampling+ work in advertising (if that sounds simple at first blush,
> remember that so does NC).
>
> sampling+ and nc-sampling+ ironically make mixing with other CC licenses
> problematic, which is why ccMixter has encouraged people using
> [nc-]sampling+ to migrate to by[-nc]. The plain 'sampling' license of
> course does not have an analog...

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