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Creative Commons 4 Educators

Orange Case Study 1

Jessica Coates's picture
Sat, 2011-02-12 01:01

Pass - see my full comments in the document attached.

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Juanan and Gemma, I was very

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Mary Lydon
Mon, 2011-02-14 06:59

Juanan and Gemma, I was very interested in your answers. It is very instructive reading your work. I found the magnatune.com website for music is a bit of a puzzle though, just because they get you to pay before you download the music, even though it is CC licensed with this licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/legalcode
How can it be noncommercial if you have to pay for it? Also it is Share Alike, so does that mean that you can similarly offer a work from Magnatune that you download? Could you put it on a site you own that others pay to subscribe to? I don't think so but I am confused by Magnatune's use of the CC licence.

I meant to say also that this

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Mary Lydon
Mon, 2011-02-14 07:02

I meant to say also that this is a very useful reference. Thank you!
http://www.ivir.nl/publications/guibault/KnowRight08_Paper.pdf,
"Creative Commons : Struggling to Keep it Simple", by Dr. Lucie Guibault

Hi Mary, regarding the

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Juanan Pereira
Mon, 2011-02-14 11:02

Hi Mary,

regarding the pay-wall of Magnatune, I think that the license that they have choosen allows this kind of sharing. I mean, they are using a CC-by-nc-sa v1.0 license, and AFAIK the NonCommercial clause it's applied to the final user (meaning, it's applied to us and not to them, because they are distributing the music in the name of the original authors). So if you're an author and want to distribute your music under any kind of CC license AND at the same time you want to make some bucks with your work, you can distribute it through the Magnatune.com services (you give them the rights to distribute your work under the cc-by-nc-sa license, and to charge their users/members some $ for that purpose). The final user will be able to redistribute this kind of work (music files) as long as they give credit to the author (BY clause) and don't make any money with the redistribution (I think that the NonCommercial clause applies here). Should they (the final users) change anything in the music, then they would have to license their derivative works under a cc-by-nc-sa license (or a compatible one) due to the ShareAlike clause.

But... you know, I'm not a lawyer ;-)

> I meant to say also that this is a very useful
> reference. Thank you!
> http://www.ivir.nl/publications/guibault/KnowRight08_Paper.pdf

Yes! The "Struggling to Keep it Simple" PDF document is a very interesting one, I specially like the compatibility table between CC licenses. Thanks for your comments, Mary!