[pd-discuss] CC-zero for vimeo, soundcloud & co

Fri Jun 14 08:16:48 UTC 2013

Thanks Nina for posting to the Vimeo thread - btw, I was at LGM this
year where I discovered your work, during your controversial
presentation :)

In regards to SoundCloud: there are many good arguments for them to
add CC-0, or a public domain mark, or both.

In their announcement from August 2010, when they made an upgrade to
their CC support -
https://blog.soundcloud.com/2010/08/19/reuse-soundcloud-style/ - David
Noël wrote:

"Sounds of CCentury is a group on SoundCloud collecting the coolest
CC-licensed and No Rights Reserved historic audio. We’ve started it
out with a few public domain tracks, but if you run an archive, have
access to other interesting public domain tracks, or just happened to
have a field recorder handy when something amazing happened, please
contribute to this collection."

Here is the page of this group (inactive since two years):
https://soundcloud.com/groups/sounds-of-ccentury
It's co-managed by Parker Higgins, who has worked for SC, and is now
working at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. If my customer service
request doesn't go through, he may direct us towards the appropriate
people at SoundCloud to talk with.

Best,
Manuel

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Maarten Brinkerink
<mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Very interesting thread! Especially because I've previously been in contact
> with SoundCloud about them not only supporting CC-0, but preferably also a
> PD Mark (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/).
>
> The reason for this is that the institution I work for (the Netherlands
> Institute for Sound and Vision) has a very interesting PD music recording
> collection it would like to distribute through SoundCloud, but *only* if it
> is accompanied with a suitable rights statement.
>
> I would very much like to investigate how we could work together to maybe
> 'pressure' them a bit more. My previous individual attempts aimed directly
> at our contact at SoundCloud have not been very fruitful yet.
>
> Best,
>
> Maarten
>