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

Fri Jun 14 16:01:42 UTC 2013

Thanks Nina, already got it off list. We'll keep you posted!

Best, Maarten

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Op 14 jun. 2013 om 16:48 heeft Nina Paley <nina at ninapaley.com> het volgende geschreven:

> 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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