On Friday 19 August 2005 18:55, Shayne O'Connor wrote: > well, if there are answers to your reservations, i guess they would lie > in this section of the "Share Music" license (which at least *sounds* > like a good idea, don't you think?): > > "# You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 > above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward > commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of > the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or > otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward > commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is > no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange > of copyrighted works." > > that is really vague, and open to interpretation, and unless you can be > more specific about the ways in which you think your music could be used > by the forces of evil, then i think your concerns will have to go > unanswered ... but the fact that the Beastie Boys have released music > under a CC license should relieve you somewhat (cos i'm sure that out of > any world-renowned band, they'd be so unlikely to expose any of their > music to use by the forces of social/environmental/political evil) ;) Thanks, I feel better now. That _does_ partly answer some of my reservations. I thought we were probably talking the same language. ;) -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
