Re: OT: for our planned festival - distribution channels regarding "call for performers", legal advice regarding ancillary copyright

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Jeff said:
> Couldn't we have some kind of Creative Commons license? Like Ninjam 
>perfomances.

The short answer is "no".

The slightly longer one: even the most restrictive cc license
(by-nc-nd) will allow third parties to freely distribute the work in
question. This may be a problem in some cases with people bound to a
performing rights organization by which they pass the handling of
rights to that organization exclusively and for the duration of the
contract, but internet streams may be exempt from that regulation
(some of the German GEMA contracts are of that kind).
In such a case, an artist would very well be able to grant us the
right to stream his material via the internet, but would not allow him
to publish it under a cc license.

            Rainer