A few years back I tried really hard to get all the old bands I could find to release their work under an open license, Creative Commons, etc. but most of the people didn't understand that. So now I'm mostly feeding files to another guy, who is locating band members (Facebook is useful for this) to get permission. In many cases band give permission because they don't even have digital copies!
The guy who hosts the site is ready and willing to pull down any files if an old band member decides he doesn't want the stuff published. Luckily, we're all pretty much a bunch of friends and cohorts who lost touch with each other, so we're hoping it won't be an issue. Anything I've been involved with I get permission from others to apply a proper license. Pete Frank Carver wrote: > 2009/10/5 Pete Prodoehl <[email protected]> > >> I put my 20+ year old box of audio cassettes to good use... >> And you can see some of the results here: >> http://www.mkepunk.com/ >> > > That's really cool, Pete. Any idea on license terms for these MP3s, though? > > By implication they are free to listen, but is it OK to use them in > derived works? Or commercial projects? Do you (or the original > artists) want attribution? etc. > > Thanks, > Frank. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
