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Legal Music

March 20, 2004 4:45 PM - comments (4)

Creative Commons has collected a set of freedoms that musicians may want to grant into a new "Music Sharing" license: "download, file-share, copy, and webcast — but not to sell, alter, or make any other commercial uses." It is the latest and not the last innovation in the music space. Stay tuned for lots more.

Posted by Lawrence Lessig on March 20, 2004 4:45 PM |

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March 20, 2004 7:14 PM Karl-Friedrich Lenz:

I have commented on my blog yesterday.

The title to the "legal code" is not "Music Sharing License", but "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0".

I would like to suggest an abbreviation like "ANN" license for the title, which would be much more easy to say.

And I wonder if the "Music Sharing License" is really only one way of using the ANN version 2.0 license, which would counter the criticism raised by Evan Prodromou that too many licenses confuse people and dilute the Creative Commons brand.

March 21, 2004 5:23 AM tomsong:

I originally chimed in and said something in agreement, Karl-Frederich. I thought a fourth license seemed redundant and possibly confusing to songwriters. However, I see it now as a simplification. An all-in-one license that applies itself specifically to the worldwide spread of music. Therefore webcasters should direct the originators of the programming material, (songwriters and internet collaborators) to the music sharing license.

We will be using it on our site (Dmusic.)

March 24, 2004 2:48 PM J.B. Nicholson-Owens:

This is great, and I particularly appreciate how all of the CC licenses allow me to continue to non-commercially broadcast the covered audio on my community access radio show program "Digital Citizen".

Just to stem the tide of questions that usually comes my way when I talk about this: Yes, I'm working on building an archive of episodes for rebroadcast, personal listening, sharing in any medium, and allowing derivative works whenever I can (when I don't inherit more restrictive license terms from another license). I just made the move to a higher bandwidth line (formerly 3KB/s now closer to 300KB/s) and now I'm working on finding inexpensive hosting for a few webpages and lots of Ogg Vorbis and Speex files of the show.