8 Mar
2011
8 Mar
'11
8:48 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 04:55:43PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:
Hello Cedric!
I don't want to start another flame war, so please take this only
as an opinion and certainly not an offense.
I suppose we might have a few people, who hold the copyright to
their music. By not having otherwise expressed a copyright yet, I'm
one of them. But how do I have "more space" to get an airing? What
makes my way of distribution so different? Granted, upto now, people
should ask me, if they want to redistribute my music. But otherwise,
my way of getting open air, open ears and listeners, is the same as
all the CC-by-SA chaps. I don't take any money for my music, well
most of it. :-) I use open source tools and move within this
community, have done so for 10 years now and don't think of
abstaining. the only thing I wish is to have some control over my
music. I like to follow it, see that it doesn't get used for
purposes, that I can't agree with. I don't prohibit anyone from
listening to it FOR FREE, showing it to friends, playing it - god
forbid - at a party :-)... You get my meaning.
Well, I think your point is very
valid; I feel much the same about
what I creat, in whatever medium it happens to be. This said, I think
it's a mistake not to license, or at least explicitly state one's
expectations are and simply rely on inherent copyrights. The outcome is
likely to be one of two possibilities: either people will refrain from
linking or redistributing the material out of uncertainty (as Jeremy
did), or they will misconstrue the absence of a clear statement as a
tacit permission to use the work in most any way they see fit.
Just my 2 pennies worth...
Cheers,
S.M.