>From having looked through Internet Archive's live music collection, I doubt much, if any of it, would be considered free by our definition. They only seem to care that the artist was fine with being recorded at the show, and there's certainly no release to do anything you want to do with the recording, like there would have to be with a CC-BY-SA release.
The music there is free beer, but you couldn't say, use it commercially or sell albums of it without falling afoul of the copyright law. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:31 AM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > What about the Internet Archive? They certainly have much more free > > content than us, if you just count bytes. > > The Internet Archive has many subprojects which are non-free content > (wayback machine) and dubious content (Open source books). > > Their Live Music Archive and Moving image collection may be bigger in > terms of bytes. > > I'm less confident in the Moving image collection, as they dont > explain why the items are PD. e.g. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions/Archive/2011/June#Lycanthropus > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
