[advocacy] Open/Free/Personal music licenses

[Bacchus Thirteen]

Reading your argument, again the information seems to
be vital.  Musicians need to feel their music is not
abused for commercial purpose and music fans are sure
that we are paying to musicians for what they offered
us.

If you are busy with your own works, could you show us
the list of useful information on the net?  Not
propaganda(!) Our generation is very suspicious of any
kind of propaganda.

Correct and simple information is more helpful.  Do we
need lawyers or academics in law department? 
Actually, if someone who is knowledgeable of law
builds a website, it must be very helpful but I wonder
if someone volunteers it or not.

--- Daniel James <daniel at mondodesigno.com> wrote:

> As for Ogg Vorbis not being a 'secure' format, we
> have to question 
> what security means to the various parties involved.
> The conventional 
> definition of the content industry is that 'secure'
> means 
> 'pay-to-play'. We might define it instead as
> 'authenticated', ie that 
> an encryption key proves that the artist personally
> authorized the 
> release of the track on the internet.
> 
> I can envisage a track being pay-to-play without the
> consent of the 
> artist - secure in the first sense but not the
> second. For example, 
> the artist may prefer to have their music freely
> downloaded and 
> shared, either for altruistic or marketing reasons,
> but the record 
> company says no.
> 
> If I was signed to a record label that released my
> music in Windows 
> Media Player format, I'd be upset that the people
> downloading it 
> thought I supported Microsoft and all they stand
> for... 
> 
> When an internet user downloads a pay-to-play track,
> how do they know 
> that the artist is getting a cut of the money? Even
> the 'official' 
> site of a musician might be out of their control,
> especially if they 
> are not tech-savvy.
> 
> Anecdote: I used to live around the corner from a
> studio belonging to 
> a group world-famous in the 1960's. I phoned them up
> to say that 
> their name had been taken as a .com by some web
> parasites who would 
> sell it to anybody for $thousands, and that I'd help
> them get it 
> back. They didn't have a clue what I was talking
> about, and a few 
> days later I got a letter from their office -
> created on a 
> typewriter.  I don't know about the rest of you, but
> I haven't seen a 
> mechanical typewriter in use for at least ten years.
> 
> Daniel

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