Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Gary (AUDN)" <gary AT audn.net>]

Websites such as podsafeaudio.com use non-Commercial Creative Commons licensing to allow people to continue to make podcasts and internet radio streams without having to deal with the absurd licensing needed by ‘popular’ music.

People are now starting to add advertising to their Podcasts and Internet radio streams, so that they can generate revenue, and reward themselves for the spent hours running these ventures. Using this music helps the small musicians and small record labels via exposure and helps these small radio stations compete with the huge corporations who dominate radio ownership.

However, adding advertising now “officially” breaks the non-Commercial aspect of the CC license?

 

The Music industry seriously needs a different version of the CC license which allows commercial companies to be allowed to broadcast the work, be it using Podcast, traditional radio, internet radio, in clubs, pubs or cafes etc. for public entertainment. This is not just the commercial CC license, as music could not be burnt on a CD and sold, become the brand of a corporation, using to advertise a product, or derivative works made etc.    Perhaps the non-Commercial license should have an option to allow broadcasting on commercial radio/casting as long as it is not used as part of an advertising message and the track still attributed in a reasonable way.

 

Is this in the realm of CC, or does the industry need a separate alternative to PPL/MCPC/PRS (this is what we have in the UK).