Anytime Fantastic Lead , by Cristian Paduraru

All Rights Reserved?

A question for you, Cristian...and a general observation...

What does "All Rights Reserved" mean to you? Does it mean don't use this without talking to me, or perhaps don't use it at all. I'm trying to decide in general how to handle this on the site, perhaps give people a place to put some info about their license on each file.

What does everyone think of All Rights Reserved as meaning. I know what it means at face value, but I'm not sure that face value is everyone's intent here.

All rights reserved means...

To me it signifies that the person who posts the audio files either withholds all rights or is acting on behalf of another who has the rights. If anyone wants to use it for any purpose (including listening), you should first obtain the rights from the owner(s). It might be better to be more granular with this type of license to allow song owners to say exactly what hey want to allow. For example, if all rights are reserved, technically we should not even listen to it which of course negates the reason for posting it.

Maybe the following should be allowed to be statedL:

All rights are reserved but (select all that apply)
- you may listen to it for your own personal enjoyment
- you may download it to your machine to listen to it.
- you may purchase the song for
- you may buy the exclusive rights to the song for $$????
- you may use this in any way you want for non commercial but for commercial you must pay.
etc.

I am going to ask Pat to wiegh in on this too. he is an actual entertainment lawyer.

Duane

Right, You May...

I agree with Duane,

Basicly all my material is copyrightd thru the record label. I grant all rights for listening, downloading, using it (remix, production) as long as artist credit are given.

The only case for permission is when the sample will be commercialized.

This sample is here to be used, because we care most about the relations and music... and this will give you all rights ;-)

Cristian

Which of the Creative Common Rights should be appropriate?

So, which of the Creative Common Rights should be appropriate to the description?

I'm not a CC nutter...but...

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ is probably a good choice.

The thing I like about the CC licenses is that they spell out everything very explicitly. All Rights Reserved is cool too, but it might make sense to write in the body of the audio node what you expect from people, because as Duane says -- its possible that you yourself have limited rights to the work...