Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 05:23 am, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2005, at 20:04, drew Roberts wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:01 pm, Branko Collin wrote:
> >> IIRC, in the Netherlands the collection agencies (the ones that make
> >> some wholesale copying possible and legal) are opposing public domain
> >> dedications. That is, I as an author can legally dedicate a work to
> >> the public domain, but a radio station that only plays songs that
> >> were dedicated to the PD will still have to pay levies.
> >
> > And who would they give this money to?
>
> In Finland the comparable organization wants a compulsory license fee
> for dispatching satellite TV within an apartment building, even though
> the broadcast is available free and unencrypted off the air. They say
> that TV programs contain music and dispatching foreign channels within
> an apartment building is rebroadcasting the music. For radio play, they
> also collect fees for foreign music.
>
> I think this is a conspiracy to protect local culture. Otherwise
> broadcasting foreign content would be cheaper than broadcasting local
> content.

That may be, but presumably, they would be collecting fees on music that is 
copyrighted.

In the example above, a station could be playing only music which is in the 
public domain and for which no license fees are do, but supposedly, they 
still want to collect the fees. Hence the question:

> > And who would they give this money to?

Option one: No one, they are going to keep it.

Option two: To the artists in heavy rotation in the country at the time.

Others?

They would proably even try to collect the fees from a musician who set up a 
station to play only his own music (all original) and who is not signed with 
any rights agencies. Anyone know of any examples relating to this 
possibility.

all the best,

drew