19 Aug
2005
19 Aug
'05
11:23 p.m.
On Saturday 20 August 2005 01:11, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
No, not if it's not licensed. This is why CC and the like is so important.
IANAL either,
but I would propose that if you posted a message to a
specific group (not the world) and indicate that they are allowed to
download a piece, you are in fact giving them the option to listen to
your piece for free. But, they don't own the piece. There is nothing
implied in the act of allowing them to listen to it that indicates they
can transfer the piece to someone else. Because, they don't have the
right -- only the copyright owner does.
just want to make clear - i'm not talking about giving up
ownership/authorship/licensing fees ... i'm talking about sharing music,
as in "am i allowed to keep this in my shares folder when using
soulseek/amule/etc? am i allowed to aggregate/distribute it along the
lines of RadIO or Commontunes.org?". this is a pretty important question, i think, and not
entirely black and
white .... you have to remember that a lot of these copyright laws are,
like, in a different dimension to what reality consitutes these days.
Now, if you're going to start asking complicated questions about the nature of
reality I'm out of here. ;) Copyright is pretty straightforward by
comparison.
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim