> How about this though: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed-music > I'm curious, would you consider this one instead?
No, all Magnatune music must follow the same CC, first to make it easy for users, and second, because it's my philosophy behind the site. The "Music Sharing License" you linked to above is about putting music on peer to peer networks, which isn't what Magnatune's about.
> I'd like someone to ask permission to me before sampling or > re-interpreting "directly" from the work.
Magnatune's not for you then. As an artist who has had to go through the "asking permission" system I know that "ask permission" ends up being "don't use it". I really believe that artists today have a responsibility to future artists to allow their works to be an inspiration to other artists in the future.
I've also benefited too much from GNU and Berkeley-style licensed software, which is essentially a "derivative works allowed with attribution" license, to be so selfish as to not contribute works to that style of licensing.
If you want to require permission for derivative works, that's fine, it's your opinion, but Magnatune isn't for you.
You wrote:
'As an artist who has had to go through the "asking permission" system I know that "ask permission" ends up being "don't use it".'
Sorry, categorically not true. I run the net.label Monotonik:
http://www.mono211.com/content/news.html
..and we like people to ask to use derivations, simply because our artists like releasing their material for free, but they want to know and approve of who's remixing it or reappropriating it. And we've said yes to dozens of people since 1996. But the point is, it's nice to be able to say no if you don't agree with what the person is doing, and it's nice to be asked because then you know _what_ they're doing. I don't consider that step to be a horrendous thing. I guess others might :)
Posted by: simon | April 02, 2004 at 02:06 PM