i think that droberts has a point: when looking at albums, the most relevant piece of information to the law-fearing user is the most restrictive license that covers part of the content you are looking at when looking at the album.
So, i agree that this should be indicated with a huge tag of "(contains music released under a) RESTRICTIVE LICENSE", since this information is there to minimize the risk of copyright infringement when copying full albums. In the track view, we can show the tracks license (unless some its music is licensed under a different license? there's no formal difference). This tagging is not arbitraty, and it does not imply saying that since one track is PD the whole album is. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Marcos Marado <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:28:44 John Sullivan wrote: >> drew Roberts <[email protected]> writes: >> > I think rather, that for the safety of the user (remember, these days >> > they are pushing to put people in jail for simple possession of >> > copyright infringing material) it would be better to label the album >> > with the most restrictive license and perhaps * (star) it to indicate >> > that the album contains some Free tracks. >> >> That isn't your/our decision to make -- as Donald said, the license of >> the album is a factual question, the answer to which is determined only >> by the copyright holder(s). Tagging it with an arbitrary license just >> because that is the license of one of the tracks on the album is >> incorrect and doesn't help anyone's safety. > > Since an album is actually a collection of tracks, wouldn't it be wise to > indicate, in the album view, the licenses of the tracks? (eg: if all tracks > are CC-BY, say the album has CC-BY tracks; if one track is PD and the others > CC-BY then say the album has "PD; CC-BY" tracks) > > Best regards, > -- > Marcos Marado > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > -- entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
