Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Harlan Lieberman-Berg <sysadmin AT tacticalbusinesspartners.com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:05 -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:55 +0100, faskine AT web.de wrote:
> > The band wants to keep as much rights as possible on that song, but is 
> > willing to allow me to use the song for non-commercial use in my video.
> > 
> > I will ask them to release that song under the "Attribution 
> > Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)" license, but I think the band 
> > is not willing to do that. 
> 
> by-nc-nd wouldn't suffice for your use anyway, as you're making a
> derivative work.  See
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/legalcode
> 
>         synchronization of the Work in timed-relation with a moving
>         image ("synching") will be considered a Derivative Work for the
>         purpose of this License.
> 
Yes, this is correct.  But, there's a little way around that,  if they
want it not to be edited. If they release their song to you through the
copyright system, and then you release the video under a No Derivatives
license, then their song can't be changed. 
> You'd need by-nc-sa, by-nc, by, or pd.
> 
> > So which kind of contract/statement do I need from the band to be able to 
> > publish the video under CC (by-nc-nd)?
> 
> I guess you need an agreement with them that allows you to do just that.
> I am not a lawyer, you may wish to consult one.
I agree.  You should get a lawyer to draw up a contract. One who is
familiar with copyleft.
> 
> > Many greetings, CC rocks! I use it for all my own works,
> 
> Thanks!
>