Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Monday 28 May 2007 06:45 am, Kevin Phillips (home) wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 May 2007 08:47 pm, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-27-05 at 18:46 -0400, drew Roberts wrote:
> > > > So, how could one abide by the license and play a CC BY song on a
> > > > broadcast radio station? How do you send out the URI every time you
>
> play
>
> > > > a song?
> > >
> > > "Creative commons dot org slash licenses slash by slash three dot oh".
> > >
> > > However, I agree that it'd be nice to be able to just refer to the
> > > licenses by name.
> >
> > And per the license, you have to announce this for each song? And how
> > will
>
> a
>
> > station sound that does that?
>
> What?  Are you guys suggesting it has to be announce on air???

Bump. I have not seen anyone else try to deal with this. Does everyone see 
that as a non-issue? If so, please explain. If not, can we discuss it further 
please?
>
> ...omg, the death of cc-radio before it even began....there's no way
> stations will agree to that, it's difficult enough to get them to play more
> than 2 minutes of a song these days, without talking nonsense, selling a
> high-toll competition phone line or cutting to commercials.
>
> Even small webcasters would shy away, because it's too awkward and clunky.
> They have little time enough as it is without imposing more red tape on
> their blue mondays.
>
> > Before, after, after a block? It seems
> > cumbersome nad like it would make for an odd sounding radio program. Is
>
> that
>
> > really what we want?
>
> Only if we want to put musicians off the licenses, and radio stations off
> the music released under the licenses......it's like asking the station to
> announce "this track is the copyright of Sony Music 2007" everytime they
> play a Sony-signed artist. I appreciate it's not quite the same, but to a
> station it's equally farcical.  Much as Sony would enjoy it, it'll never
> happen.
>
> My point is that surely it's not really appropriate for "radio station"
> audio output?  Afterall, ccMixter, Kompoz, Jamendo etc don't have an
> infomercial at the beginning/end of everything you listen to or download,
> "this track is licensed...."
>
> Radio stations SHOULD have reference on their websites though, nice big
> promos for artists and lots of links to cc content......please :)
>
> My 2p :)
>
> Kev
>
all the best,

drew

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(da idea man)