[OpenGLAM] Weekend Read: Sita’s free: Landmark copyleft animated film is now licensed CC0

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi Maarten,

You are right, Nina Pailey did have some problems regarding the original 
music, and copyright. Country-wide (meaning in the US) the music was 
considered public domain, but there were problems with the music in 
specific states and their copyright. It's a complex situation, but, in 
the end Pailey was asked to pay $220,000 for the rights to use the 
music, but in the end she was able to negotiate it to only paying 
$50,000. You can read all of the details about it on her blog: 
http://blog.ninapaley.com/2008/12/28/sitas-distribution-plan/

-Sarah

On 1/20/13 7:55 AM, Maarten Brinkerink wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm responding out of curiosity mostly. Hope you guys can fill me in.
>
> Although this is a nice gesture. Wasn't there something with the music 
> she use to score the film not being in the public domain yet? How can 
> she have enough rights cleared to wave all the rights and have to 
> movie available under CC0?
>
> Best,
>
> Maarten
>
> Op 19 jan. 2013, om 19:19 heeft Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at okfn.org 
> <mailto:sarah.stierch at okfn.org>> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> I stumbled across this news on Friday, and decided to write a little 
>> weekend blog about it! A good excuse to watch a movie this weekend 
>> and not feel an inch of copy-guilt :)
>>
>> "Sita's free: Landmark copyleft animated film is now licensed CC0"
>>
>> http://openglam.org/2013/01/19/sitas-free-landmark-copyleft-animated-film-is-now-licensed-cc0/
>>
>> Triggered by the death of Aaron Swartz and conflict between film 
>> lawyers last week, American artist, activist and filmmaker decided to 
>> take the next and final step regarding copyleft - freeing her 
>> landmark animated film /Sita Sings the Blues/ under CC0 licensing.
>>
>> -Sarah
>>
>> -- 
>> Sarah Stierch
>> US OpenGLAM Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
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