Rights to include songs on Nanonote

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at sharism.cc
Tue Apr 26 10:06:09 EDT 2011


Jane,
that's really cool that you try to bring more artists on board.

> "As for including some of my music on the NanoNote, I'm not at
> all opposed to this. I have chosen a license which prevents
> unauthorised commercial use specifically to prevent people
> being sold an album they could get from me for free. But in
> Qi-Hardware's case, I'm willing to waive my right to preventing
> commercial use of my music, as my music would just be bonus
> material. Let me know what you think about that idea."

Unfortunately this won't help. We are building a base that is
free for anyone to use commercially or non-commercially.
Whether they still call themselves Qi Hardware or not should be
up to them as well.
By including material that was licensed only to Qi Hardware as
an exception, anybody who would want to take our stuff and fork
would first need to remove all such material. Not good.

For all its weaknesses, I do believe Creative Commons has been
doing an outstanding job of formalizing Internet and sharing
culture. So for creative works, inclusion into Qi Hardware is
possible for the following CC licenses:

CC-BY
CC-BY-SA
CC0 (public domain)

All the other stuff - non-commercial, non-derivative, sampling
only, non-military (not CC but that also comes up sometimes) - no.
It's too confusing.
Another way to say the same thing is - we are following the
exact same inclusion policies as the Wikimedia Foundation for
most of its stuff, for creative works that would be Wikimedia Commons.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

Hope this doesn't discourage you, unfortunately licensing is
tedious...
Cheers,
Wolfgang




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