The MusicBrainz website has been updated and so the answer is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic)
Which is almost the same as our reviews, which are CC 3.0. I will update the http://mashed-audioandmusic.dyndns.org to also show this. nick. On 21/8/08 17:20, "Nicholas Humfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We have been trying to work out the licence internally for a few days and I > think it may depend on the licence that MusicBrainz chooses for its tags. > > I submitted the artist genres to MusicBrainz as tags, for example: > http://musicbrainz.org/show/tag/?tag=classic+pop+and+rock > > They were submitted by the BBC Music Bot: > http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?username=bbc_music_bot > > The MusicBrainz licences are described here, but it does not say what the > tags table is licensed as: > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzLicense > > > Hopefully we will have a definitive answer soon... > > > nick. > > > On 18/8/08 12:15, "Dan Brickley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi folks >> >> Looking back at some data that emerged in time for Mashed, >> >> http://mashed-audioandmusic.dyndns.org/musicbrainz_artist_genres.txt.gz >> via http://mashed-audioandmusic.dyndns.org/#artistgenre >> [[ >> Genres for set of MusicBrainz Artists >> >> We have built a list of genres for MusicBrainz artists, based on >> editorial data entered for bbc.co.uk/music. >> You can download the dataset here: >> >> * musicbrainz_artist_genres.txt.gz >> ]] >> >> I started hacking around with this as a way of generating a music >> preference profile based on a list of artists (eg. from last.fm history, >> or one's myspace buddies/groups). >> >> http://danbri.org/words/2008/06/21/329 >> Mashed remote contrib: BBC music genres meet last.fm (meets OAuth) >> >> >> I'd like to do some more with this, but the license terms aren't >> specified. Can it be used commercially? Is attribution required? Does it >> inherit any constraints from MusicBrainz? Is use in UK vs rest-of-world >> treated the same, etc etc. It would be great to see this really handy >> dataset put on a less volatile footing, so others in the musicbrainz++ >> community can feel more confident building things with it... >> >> cheers, >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> http://danbri.org/ >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/ > This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal > views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. > If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. > Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on > it and notify the sender immediately. > Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. > Further communication will signify your consent to this. > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
