On Sunday 26 October 2008 19:11:53 Burkhard Ritter wrote: > drew Roberts schrieb: > >>> On Saturday 25 October 2008 05:40:14 Robin Gareus wrote: > >>>> * http://ccmixter.linuxaudio.org - for a short time.around > >>>> http://www.linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2007/11/15 we set up a > >>>> bare-bone ccmixter.org intended for Music-Made-With-Linux. Should you > >>>> desire to style and maintain a ccmixter community: here's your chance. > >>> > >>> I am interested in such a site for music not only made with linux but > >>> carrying Free licenses like cc BY and BY-SA. I would need help and also > >>> am concerned about the legal aspects of running such a site. Are there > >>> legal resources and a legal entity umbrella to help with this? > >> > >> I'm sorry I can't help you with that; lam.fugal.net circumvents this by > >> only collecting links to such songs, not the data itself. > > > > OK, but I am wary of that too, thoughts anyone? A ccmixter type site > > would actually host files... Hmmm, I wonder if the code could be changed > > to let the internet archive host the files? > > I don't see the problem there. If we are careful with the licenses it > should be fine to host and stream the music. Now I haven't looked at > ccmixter.org in detail but it seems to be pretty large, complicated; > probably overkill for us. What I could imagine is taking the > lam.fugal.net-add-music-page and adding some stuff: _optionally_ allow > users to upload the file instead of (or additionally to) providing a > url, requiring them to choose a license (most likely Creative Commons) > that actually allows us to host and stream the file. Visitors can then > download appropriately licensed music from linuxaudio.org. Later we > could add a moderated or random stream, in addition to a m3u playlist. I need to remember to comment on this when I have more time. > > >> linuxaudio.org can help out with technical aspects: setup, provide > >> bandwidth, backup and diskspace. Someone else will need to jump in for > >> the license details. - I guess you will need to provide a phone-number > >> so that PPL can call in to remove cumbersome content :( > > > > You are thinking DMCA type notification wrt "cumbersome content"??? > > Is there really need for something like this? When we just accept > properly licensed music files? Unfortunately, there probably is such a need. People may put up tracks where the work belongs to others and indicate a license that they have no right to apply. IIRC, the folks over at ourmedia.org ran into this issue a good bit. > > Regards, > Burkhard all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
