Creative Commons Survey

[Nightwolf]

Dear John Nightwolf!

You have decided to release music on Soundclick.com. Your music is

protected by "standard" copyright. In contrast, a significant amount of

other artists on Soundclick decided to put their music under a Creative

Commons license, which allows users to share and remix these songs.

Standard copyright does not grant these rights. You can find an

introduction to Creative Commons at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons.

We are curious to learn more about the way you, not being a user of

Creative Commons licenses, make and promote your music. This would help

us

determining if using a Creative Commons license has a positive or

negative

effect on artists' success. In case you are familiar with Creative

Commons

licenses, we would also be interested in your view on the benefits and

drawbacks of Creative Commons licenses as well as the experiences you

made

so far.

This study is a joint project by Professor Joachim Henkel, Technische

Universitaet Muenchen (currently at Harvard Business School) and

Johannes

Wechsler, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, and is supported by

Professor

Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School.

We would like to invite you to participate in our survey. The

questionnaire

will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Your responses will be

treated

strictly confidential. Results will only be published in aggregated

form.

Please find below the url of our survey.

http://www.tim.wi.tum.de/surveys/limesurve...777&lang=en

Your token for participating in this survey is: xxxxx

After submitting the survey, you can sign up for a prize draw – we

are

giving away ten Amazon gift certificates worth USD 30. In addition, you

can

order a copy of the survey results.

Should you have any questions concerning the research project or the

survey, please do not hesitate to contact Johannes Wechsler at

wechsler@wi.tum.de or by phone under +49 89 289 25748.

Thank you very much for your participation!

Joachim Henkel, Professor, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (currently

at

Harvard Business School)

Johannes Wechsler, Ph.D. candidate, Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School

[john]

Hmmm

Creative Commons licensing is real, but it is a misrepresentation, or at least misleading to say "it allows you this..."

Creative Commons is a set of standard "Copyright licensing" statements that include a standard set that allows that kind of usage. To say "not allowed by tsandard copyright" is BS. If you write your own license it can say anything you want... you have complete control.

Creative Commons also works within copyright law, it is not an alternative. whoever wrote that should get a good slap... lol

Cheers

John

[Steve]

I think certain kinds of music lend themselves better to this kind of practice than others! I remember Hari put one of his tracks up for remixing in a competion. Interesting format. Not for me.

[Lazz]

whoever wrote that should get a good slap...

I like your attitude.

Creative Commons obviously has made its ideologically-driven place in the contemporary media-universe.

But - like Steve - it ain't for me.

No way.

Nope.

[AnneC]

I like your attitude.

Creative Commons obviously has made its ideologically-driven place in the contemporary media-universe.

But - like Steve - it ain't for me.

No way.

Nope.

Agreed. I think there's too much dilution (translation: ripping off) of creativity now as it is. The e-mail may be above-board but I'm wondering what Herr Henkel's stake in this is. Maybe I missed something.

[Lazz]

Actually - I had no doubt that the e-mail was above bpard.

But am now beginning to entertain doubts over the wierd spelling of "München".

[Steve]

Gladbach you spotted that!

[Nightwolf]

Actually - I had no doubt that the e-mail was above bpard.

But am now beginning to entertain doubts over the wierd spelling of "München".

well, that clinches it for me, good spotting Lazz

[Geraint]

Actually, I was under the impression that "u umlaut" became "ue" quite often when transliterating, and the same with "o" and "a". You see it a lot in last-names that have come from another country, like "Chad Kroeger".

"In other languages that do not have the letter as part of the regular alphabet or in limited character sets such as ASCII, U-umlaut is frequently replaced with the two-letter combination 'ue' " --Wikipedia

The same thing has happened to "Universitaet" - in proper germanic script, it is written with an A-umlaut instead of "ae".

So, I probably think that the survey is legit. Also, I would say 'standard copyright' does not allow re-mixing or anything like that. True, you can write your own licence and similar, but at that point I'm not sure it's "standard" anymore. I think it's a decent summary for those not copyright-aware.

--G

Edited January 18, 2009 by Geraint

[Nightwolf]

Very interesting G, I had seen the weird spellings bee4, but had no idea why

[Nightwolf]

With the weird spellings justified, I felt confident enough to wade in. It seems for real. Questions like "Why would you choose to/not to use creative commons?"

"How many Songs have you made?" ETC...

I think I'll start a discussion on the pros and cons of creative commons now. My curiousity is piqued..

[Lazz]

Actually, I was under the impression that "u umlaut" became "ue" quite often when transliterating, and the same with "o" and "a". You see it a lot in last-names that have come from another country, like "Chad Kroeger".

That's great, Geraint.

Thanks for the illumination.

I just like to spell place-names as they are spelled in that place.

But I was still quite happy that the questionnaire was legitimate.