On Wednesday 20 February 2008 12:46:59 Cesare Marilungo wrote:
Cesare Marilungo wrote:
Here's the story: I published some tracks of
mine at
opsound.org. At the
time I submitted these tracks, the license was by-nc-sa, which is the
same license I've always used for all the other websites where I've put
my stuff.
Now they've changed the license and removed the non-commercial clause.
As a result of this, may more websites (which crawl the content from
opsound) host my tracks with the by-sa license.
Could they do this? What can I do now?
-c.
I received a mail from opsound. It seems that the license has always
been by-sa.
I was just researching that for you...
I went to the wayback machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030312104735/www.opsound.org/opsound.html
That is the earliest page I could get to. Apr 07, 2003
I has been straight BY-SA since then.
Most websites that host music don't require any license at all. You just
have to be the copyright holder and you must agree to let them publish
your music on their website. Other sites, like Jamendo, let you choose
which cc license you want to use.
Probably, when I submitted my tracks it wasn't clear enough (at least to
me) that the music should be licensed that way.
So, it may be that those tracks are BY-SA and you may not be able to do much
about it as far as people who already have them go.
However, just FYI and the information of any else in a similar boat.
If someone wants to include your BY-SA music in a film or video, the film or
video has to use the BY-SA license as well. If they are unwilling to make the
film BY-SA, then you can get paid for an lsternate license just like someone
who wanted to use an NC track or even an ARR work.
Again, not legal advice, but look into the workings for yourself if you are
interested.
Anyway, sorry for the noise.
-c.
all the best,
drew