Re: [LMMS-devel] License for LMMS samples and plugins

[Johannes K. <jk...@la...>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
musikBear <mk...@ho...> wrote:

> 
> In my opignion the real danger is in the actual package. Some idiot lawyer
> (very posible a german 'marnung-artist' .. :/ -could focus on the actual
> LMMS package, and with that in hand place a class-act lawsuit on everything
> ever produced with LMMS. Simply using the lawyer-based-logic "produced with
> somthing that has illeagal content -ergo illeagal!
> Some lawyers has made a carreer in being guilded ass*****.. 

You mean "Abmahn-Anwalt" maybe ;-)

I think you're right. According to GEMA, there is no such thing as
"fair use" in the sense that you can use samples up to a certain
length freely. This may vary from country to country, but
basically, every piece of data you distribute must have some form of
license, CC or whatever, and permission from the people who made it,
of course. Else, technically you just can't distribute it, and nobody
can create anything based on it. (IANAL, but that's just the way it is.)

Check out this cool art performance btw, it was somewhat related. (text
in german, video has english subtitles)
http://www.kreidler-net.de/productplacements.html

I guess presets are less of a problem than samples. Just in case, you
could re-create all of them and put them all under CC for the next
release. 

It's probably best and easiest for artists if all the data is licensed
with one permissive CC license, maybe just "by", but maybe even put
everything into Public Domain so that people don't have to include
attribution texts with all their MP3s. :-) In any case, the license of
all the data must be made clear.