Copyright
I recently made a remix of an interview w/ some free beats from Ozone Beats at SoundClick.com. I took creative license which is ILLEGAL. As of 1976 the copyright laws prohibit such a thing automatically whether or not a artists thinks it is ok. I'm breakin' da law breakin' da law. Want more information concerning how I broke the law and some info about how folks are trying to change the law to make what I did...LEGAL check out this weeks This Week In Tech Episode 27. This week they have a special guest, the founder of the Creative Commons.
posted by JC at 8:33 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for following up, Jeremy. Here is the key copyright statement at the bottom of the Ozone Beats page:
"All material on this site is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make a reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s)" (emphasis added).
The key here for remixes is the restriction on "derivative works." Note, however, that you can make derivative works if the copyright owner authorizes you to do so. BTW, Creative Commons license options make it easy for copyright owners to provide just such authorizations, but it is their choice.
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