[LAU] linuxaudio.org

[drew Roberts]

On Sunday 26 October 2008 19:11:53 Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> 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.

I need to remember to comment on this when I have more time.
>
> >> 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?

Unfortunately, there probably is such a need. People may put up tracks where 
the work belongs to others and indicate a license that they have no right to 
apply. IIRC, the folks over at ourmedia.org ran into this issue a good bit.
>
> Regards,
> Burkhard

all the best,

drew