choosing a new license at freesound, please help

On Oct 26, 2006, at 00:43, freesoundiua.upf.edu wrote:

> It looks like the "authors" in freesound
mostly want to use the nc  
> license
> because they want to be able to decide who uses their
samples in which
> commercial contest.

Is that a good idea? If you were a user of samples, would
you like to  
give providers of samples control over your work? Would you
want to  
give font vendors veto over your writing?

> People (even here I see!) always seem to forget that
even though you
> release something under by-nc you can still give
permission to  
> anyone to
> use the sample in a commercial work (in obviously a
less "legally  
> defined"
> way, but *I* don't care about that).

Which means that the situation has degenerated into
listen-before-you- 
license ARR, but naïve people are more likely to incorporate
the  
samples in their works before they realize what they have
gotten  
themselves into. When they realize that their works have
been  
encumbered by NC, they have sunk cost (at least the
opportunity cost  
of creating the works using the samples) and would incur a
cost if  
they had to remove the samples from their works in case the
copyright  
holder of the samples turns out to be uncooperative.

I think Public Domain is the most sensible choice for
samples.

However, if you want a CC license, ND is obviously
unsuitable.  
Sampling and Sampling+ are unsuitable, because they are for
larger  
works that can be sampled--not for samples. NC encumbers
works that  
use the samples is a way that is so unreasonable that I have
a hard  
time seeing why anyone would want to use samples under NC
after  
realizing the consequences of using NC. It has been pointed
out in  
this thread that it is not at all clear what SA means when
applied to  
samples. Using unclear licenses is a bad idea. That leaves
CC-by, but  
attributing each sample author may be impractical (hence the
PD  
suggestion).

IANAL. I am not CC.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivoneniki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/


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