Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 07:52 +1100, bmz wrote:
> The reason I am looking at these is that I don't want to stop people 
> either remixing my work or including my work in a DJ mixed set of music 
> (which I consider to be a derivative work). I don't want to stop people 
> being able to hear my music but at the same time I don't want anyone 
> selling it without my permission. I'd like to keep the option of 
> licensing my work for commercial release.

CC licenses are non-exclusive, so using a non-NC license doesn't
eliminate your commercial options.

> My interest in this from the DJ perspective is that I currently have a 
> regular unpaid gig where I play a lot of Non-commercially licensed CC 
> music released on various netlabels. If I were to get a paid gig, my 
> understanding is, I would no longer be able to play Non-commercially 
> licensed CC music, which I feel would be a great loss due to artists 
> getting less exposure.
> 
>  From my perspective Non-commercial is too restrictive and Commercial is 
> too free.
> 
> The license deeds contain the words "Any of the above conditions can be 
> waived if you get permission from the copyright holder." but there isn't 
> any "standard" way to grant additional rights. Has anyone discussed the 
> concept of standardised CC waivers, a kind of CC plus?

There's initial work on denoting that permissions beyond the scope of
the public license offered are available (see the latter part of
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7143), but not the development
of facilities to actually obtain rights beyond the public license.
Magnatune and others have been pioneering those in the commercial space;
you could start a project specific to the needs of DJs or something.


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