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- From: "David Dixon" <ddixon AT wi.rr.com>
- To: <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Beatallica
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:03:50 -0500
| Hello, My name is David Dixon, and I'm the webmaster for a 
band called Beatallica (http://www.beatallica.org).  
Beatallica is just what the name implies:  Beatles songs, done Metallica 
style.  Both the lyrics and the music are almalgams of Metallica and 
Beatles tunes, with titles such as "Blackened the USSR." As such, there's 
no way we can release and sell the music without paying huge publishing costs, 
so we're releasing everything for free through our website, distributing it 
through BitTorrent, encouraging people to set up mirrors and share the tracks on 
p2p networks.  We rely on donations and T-shirt purchases to cover our 
costs.  There may also be a tour. The band's lawyer knows nothing about Creative 
Commons, and doesn't even seem interested in learning about it.  The 
philosophy behind CC fits perfectly with the Beatallica idea:  share and 
share alike, as long as it's not financially exploitative (ie. don't sell copies 
of our CD's to the unsuspecting who don't know that it's freely available on the 
internet).  But I have a few questions before we scrap our (C) and replace 
it with a (CC):   - Can we legally do this, considering that 
the material Beatallica uses is copyrighted?  There are no samples (except 
for a little one in "Leper Madonna"...); the music is performed, but the melodic 
and lyrical references are pretty obvious.   - How binding is the license, really?  
Would it stand up in a court of law, if we had to go that route?  Has a CC 
license been "field-tested" as it were? Thanks! D^2 Webmaster of Puppets | 
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        Beatallica,
        David Dixon, 04/06/2004
- Re: Beatallica, Chris Morris, 04/06/2004
- Re: Beatallica, Greg London, 04/07/2004
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            Re: Beatallica,
            Evan Prodromou, 04/07/2004
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            Re: Beatallica,
            David Dixon, 04/08/2004
- Re: Beatallica, Evan Prodromou, 04/08/2004
- Re: Beatallica, Greg London, 04/09/2004
 
 
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            Re: Beatallica,
            David Dixon, 04/08/2004
 - <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Beatallica, Brian Clark, 04/09/2004
 
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