Re: questions for the Dalai Lama?

[Dan Lynch]

Hi Doug,

I have a question. I've talked to some Independent professional artists lately who don't use Creative Commons. When I ask them why the general reply is "because those licensed haven't been tested in court and the artists who use them don't seem to enforce the requirements". Some even told me they'd asked their entertainment lawyers about CC and been told "it's too early yet, wait until those licenses are properly established".

So that long build up brings me to the questions. How do we combat this view? Have there been any high profile cases where people have enforced CC licenses? What would he say to these artists?

Good luck with the interview, take care,

Dan

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Douglas Whitfield <dougl...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's not actually the Dalai Lama, but in the CC world, Creative
Commons itself is such a guru, no?

Well, Tom and I are interviewing Eric Steuer of Creative Commons on
Thursday (https://creativecommons.org/about/people#ericsteuer).  It
won't be live because we aren't cool like that.

Does anybody have any questions s/he would like us to ask?

[Stephen Mahood]

Doug,

Actually in a similar point to Dan, but from a listener perspective (didn't get to build up to the question as well ;) ).  Outside of individually contacting artists that we listen to what can we do as listeners to encourage either self labeled artists (thinking of Immortal Technique) or those that fight the music industry to adopt CC?

[Douglas Whitfield]

[Douglas Whitfield]

Great questions Dan and Stephen.  One note below.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 19:23, Dan Lynch <bigl...@gmail.com> wrote:

 When I ask them why the general reply is "because those licensed haven't been tested in court and the artists who use them don't seem to enforce the requirements".

I can say for sure that *some* artists enforce aspects of the licenses.  One of them happens to be on this list and we did an interview with him back before we hit it big. ;)

http://www.musicmanumit.com/2010/07/music-manumit-podcast-hey-thats-my.html

[Douglas Whitfield]

I'm sure you all subscribe, but just in case someone comes across this
on the 'tubes, here's a link to the show where the questions are
answered: http://www.musicmanumit.com/2011/03/music-manumit-podcast-creative-commons.html

[Jon Spriggs]

This was a very good and informative interview Doug and Tom. Good job Guys!
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Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs