Re: File sharing and the Creative Commons License

[Matthew Keller <kellermg () POTSDAM EDU>]

Creative Commons is a license. Like any license, it is granted by the
_copyright holder_. Students can't take their favorite band's song, and
"share" it under Creative Commons, unless their favorite band (or
whomever holds the copyright) licenses it under the Creative Commons
license.

So to answer your question, unless the companies that compose the RIAA,
etc. decide to license their copyrighted "property" under the Creative
Commons license, there will be no appreciable impact.

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:09, Kay Sommers wrote:
> A recent copy of  Wired Magazine had a cover article about Creative
> Commons, which is the licensing arrangement created by Stanford Law
> School professor Lawrence Lessig.  The magazine also included a CD of
> music produced under the Creative Commons License.   See link below for
> the Wired article.
> The Creative Common licensing permits file sharing and sampling so that
> users can swap songs, mash them up to make something fresh and then
> share that work.   There are two levels of the licensing - one is
> noncommercial file sharing and the other allows commercial use of the
> samples with some restricitons.
>
> What are the ramifications of this concept for file sharing amoung
> students?  If this catches on, will it be the end of DMCA actions?   Are
> any universities promoting this concept?
>
>
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample.html
>
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