Development of Creative Commons licenses

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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:57:12 +0100, Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org> wrote:
> On 04/10/2012 02:19 PM, drew Roberts wrote:
>>
>> There is no reason why BY or BY-SA should be incompatible either.
> 
> There is because it clashes with how collecting societies operate at the 
> moment.

Right, but this is their choice, not some fundamental law of the
universe. There is no reason they could not adapt if they wanted to.

> If I belong to a collecting society, and I license my work 
> BY-SA, then there is a contradiction between the society's right to 
> collect on the copyrights of my work, and your right to use the work 
> Free-as-in-Freedom way.

Only because they insist on being exclusive.

Say I put two licenses on my song.


1. CC BY-SA
2. Some license crafted for my CS/PRO that they love.


They can just ignore the BY-SA and enforce license #2. The ones I know
about give blanket licenses for everything they license for a set
percentage of revenue. (For example from a music playing oriented radio
station.) So they just collect on license #2 from their licensees and
give me my cut. People playing only Free Licensed music would not need
to enter into a license with them and so they could not collect under
#2. People playing a mix of Free and non-Free music would need to enter
into a license with them and they could then collect on license #2.

Flaws in this thinking?
> 
> I can give you the right to freely use my work, or I can give the 
> collecting society the right to collect fees from everyone who uses my 
> work. I cannot do both at the same time...
> 
> Every so often someone proposes a creating a CC-friendly collecting 
> society. It doesn't happen, but I think that existing collecting 
> societies could do their members a great service by also enforcing CC 
> licenses.
> 
> - Rob.

all the best,

drew