Hi everybody, I was travelling these days so I could not take part to this thread earlier, which I'm really happy/proud to see here.
Gabriel, it sounds like you have accomplished a lot, and I'd be really sorry if legal issues make you end this story. However, as Romain said, we can host your code if you want, and make you part of the savonet team as well if you want to maintain it in that way. That offer actually holds whether you shutdown your radio or not. Don't feel forced to join us though, there are some good reasons to host your project on its own, but I recommend you use one of the main open-source forges for long-term availability. Now, I had remarks in mind to answer your first message, but I think they are more relevant for fruity. I don't know the details of the situation in the USA, and even in France, just I'm convinced that it is abused. However, I know of two ways to run a radio without having to worry much: (1) Stream only libre content, and/or with the permission of artists. This is what we do at dolebrai.net (which is not doing very well these days, but that's another story). I don't think it's 100% legal, but there's not much to fear, especially if you're not huge. If the law doesn't allow to play creative-commons music, it's broken. If somebody attacks anyone for that, you'll at least become a martyr, and a huge community will be behind you. That being said, we try to avoid some problems at dolebrai, e.g. by removing artists that signed at the SACEM (french institution managing intellectual property for music in France) because SACEM does not recognize the creative commons and takes over previous songs (which doesn't make any sense, but we're complying anyway by removing the songs as soon as we know). (2) For a small station meant for only a few people, there is always the possibility to not stream publicly: set an icecast password, give it to your friends, voila. Listening to music together with friends is legal, again if it's not legal on the net then the law is broken and I don't care. Of course, you cannot claim this right when you have 100,000 (or even 100). To come back to your case Gabriel, perhaps you should encourage your DJs to use free content? It's probably hard, but some projects exist along these lines, like ccmixter. Anyway, good luck to everybody! -- David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
