[LAU] linuxaudio.org

[Burkhard Ritter]

drew Roberts schrieb:
>>> On Saturday 25 October 2008 05:40:14 Robin Gareus wrote:
>>>> * http://ccmixter.linuxaudio.org - for a short time.around
>>>> http://www.linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2007/11/15 we set up a
>>>> bare-bone ccmixter.org intended for Music-Made-With-Linux. Should you
>>>> desire to style and maintain a ccmixter community: here's your chance.
>>> I am interested in such a site for music not only made with linux but
>>> carrying Free licenses like cc BY and BY-SA. I would need help and also
>>> am concerned about the legal aspects of running such a site. Are there
>>> legal resources and a legal entity umbrella to help with this?
>> I'm sorry I can't help you with that; lam.fugal.net circumvents this by
>> only collecting links to such songs, not the data itself.
> 
> OK, but I am wary of that too, thoughts anyone? A ccmixter type site would 
> actually host files... Hmmm, I wonder if the code could be changed to let the 
> internet archive host the files?

I don't see the problem there. If we are careful with the licenses it 
should be fine to host and stream the music. Now I haven't looked at 
ccmixter.org in detail but it seems to be pretty large, complicated; 
probably overkill for us. What I could imagine is taking the 
lam.fugal.net-add-music-page and adding some stuff: _optionally_ allow 
users to upload the file instead of (or additionally to) providing a 
url, requiring them to choose a license (most likely Creative Commons) 
that actually allows us to host and stream the file. Visitors can then 
download appropriately licensed music from linuxaudio.org. Later we 
could add a moderated or random stream, in addition to a m3u playlist.

>> linuxaudio.org can help out with technical aspects: setup, provide
>> bandwidth, backup and diskspace. Someone else will need to jump in for
>> the license details. - I guess you will need to provide a phone-number
>> so that PPL can call in to remove cumbersome content :(
> 
> You are thinking DMCA type notification wrt "cumbersome content"???

Is there really need for something like this? When we just accept 
properly licensed music files?

Regards,
Burkhard