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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: commercial performance under at-nc-sa
  • Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:55:50 +0100

On 28 Mar 2004, at 19:17, Douglas Boyce wrote:

so a separate license that deals with the distribution of the print score
would be very helpful, but would need to be fairly limited in scope since it
would, down the road, interact with other peoples rights as performers. to
my mind, a 'commercial performance' license would be very helpful to
advancing cc and copyleft models of behavior in a community that currently
has remained very resistant (or unaware) of them, and would give performers
freedom to do what they can, and make as much money as they can with the
piece. adding contact info and a note that the performance limitation is
easily waived works, but is a bit inelegant.

One difference between commons/open/gift content and open source is that with open source, it's the "score" that is open. You can compile (perform?) and distribute (publish?) the resulting binary (recording?) for as much money as you like, but the source must remain freely available and modifiable.

This may be a fairly deep problem with open content music as conceived of by new media weekend-DJs, but it is a *perfect* match for contemporary classical music. I think if you apply the GNU FDL with invariants or CC-BY to the score you will achieve something close to what you're after.

- Rob.





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