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

Fri Jun 14 14:48:39 UTC 2013

My address book says Parker's email is
parkerhiggins at gmail.com
Parker is awesome. Good luck!

--Nina
On Jun 14, 2013, at 3:56 AM, Maarten Brinkerink wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I would indeed be an idea to contact Parker Higgins to ask him if he can direct us towards a specific contact inside of SoundCloud HQ. Does anyone have his current contact details? I only have his (old) SoundCloud address. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Maarten
> 
> Op 14 jun. 2013, om 10:16 heeft Manuel Schmalstieg <webdev at ms-studio.net> het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> 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
>>> 
>> 
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