19 Aug
2005
19 Aug
'05
10:11 p.m.
Brad Fuller wrote:
Shayne O'Connor wrote:
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.
shayne
Lee Revell wrote:
One needs specific authorization from the copyright owners (both from
composers and the ones who own the sound recording) to distribute or
reproduce copyrighted recorded works.
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.
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:35 +0100, tim hall
wrote:
just in the interests of clarifying something (i doubt it will serve
much practical purpose here):
it is agreed that, in the absence of any other licensing information,
that creative works will default to "All rights reserved" ... but out
of interest, does posting a link with explicit permission to download
(ie copy) a song, give up any copyrights *in that instance* ? because
you are, in effect, lifting some of those implied copyright
restrictions (otherwise it would be against the law to make a copy of
it, wouldn't it?). If we are going to assume CC status for works
posted here
IANAL but I am almost positive that would not hold up in a US court.
Creative works default to "All rights reserved", which includes anything
posted to this list without a specific license attached, regardless of
what the informal list policy is.