Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "TUG" == Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller <sloyment AT gmx.net> writes:

    TUG> Maybe my English is too bad, so please correct me if I am
    TUG> wrong, but I think that the word "performance" always refers
    TUG> to something that is done *personally*, i.e. you can perform
    TUG> a piece of music at a concert, or a theatre play on stage. If
    TUG> you just press the "Play" button of a tape recorder, you do
    TUG> not perform the work; you just play it back from a
    TUG> recording. At least this is what my dictionaries tell me.

You're incorrect.

I am not a lawyer, I don't speak for Creative Commons. (Gosh, it'd be
nice to have someone on the list who didn't have to say that, hunh?)

"Hold-line" music in the USA is considered public, commercial
performance, at least for ASCAP and cohorts. Without any other
guidance as to what "commercial" means in NonCommercial, it's probably
a good metric.

Probably it's a good idea to skip over NC for hold-line music. On the
license issue, I'd think reading off the license URL is a pretty low
price to pay for hold music (what does Muzak cost these days?).

~ESP

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