[A6] Audio clips link.

[Chris Pickett]

Joan Sarah Touzet wrote:
> Thus spake Susan Baird (susanbaird at nc.rr.com):
> 
>>Joan and all...it would be nice if we could make a page of Andy music 
>>on our new home page. I wasn't going to include personal web links in 
>>the T&T because people take their music down and sites come and go. If 
>>we could actually store mp3s on Joan's server then we can make a page 
>>of mp3s that will stay there and we can just add to them. I would LOVE 
>>to to put this page together but I zero time. Any ideas?
> 
> 
> I'm happy to do that.  Just send me your MP3 files (or a pointer to
> them, as Sioux just did) and I'll index & mirror them.  Please include
> information such as:

http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/kris_rhen_presets.tar.gz

Here's 104 preset samples from Kris Rhen.  They were originally hosted 
elsewhere but the site has gone down.  I'm sure he doesn't mind 
redistribution (the samples were done to show off the A6).

> Please, posting of royalty-free, unencumbered mp3s only.  Content on the
> A6 site is covered under a Creative Commons license (now being added to
> the pages.)

I not sure that insisting on a Creative Commons license for everything 
is the best idea.  If you do things the proper way, you'll never be able 
to chase down all the copyright holders, and even if you do it's 
unlikely that they will all agree.  If you don't do things the proper 
way, there isn't really any way to enforce things in court or protect 
yourselves.  Finally, requiring a license like this might dissuade some 
people from contributing, and that can only be bad (IMO).  Why not just 
leave it up to individual people to specify their own license on things, 
if they so choose?  Plain old copyright as the default has worked well 
up until this point ... if you had been getting takedown notices, that 
would be something different.  Besides, what about the list archives? 
And the Tips and Tricks document that's derived from them?

If you really want to do this, I think the best is to mark one section 
as "everything here is under copyright", and then another section as, 
"everything here comes with a free license or is in the public domain", 
and then for each file let the author specify the license they want or a 
short note saying it's in the public domain.  This still achieves the 
goal of promoting freely licensed / public domain stuff without getting 
yourself into what is legally a more complex situation than it looks 
like at the outset.

I know that copyright doesn't provide for distribution (although in some 
countries like Canada it's much more okay than others like the U.S.), so 
in that respect, a notice like, "Please send a message to the A6 list if 
you wish for a given file to be removed," would be appropriate.  This 
lets everyone on the list know that they shouldn't be distributing said 
file.

Cheers,
Chris