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Compatible Licenses and agreements

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	=== Compatible Licenses and agreements ===		=== Compatible Licenses and agreements ===
	For the purposes of referencing content on PickiPedia, it's reasonable to include, for example, recordings on archive.org which have express permissions from the artist which have the same affordances as one of the established Creative Commons licenses, such as [[Sam Grisman Project#Custom Copyleft License\|the license text authored by Sam Grisman to enable sharing and distribution of his project's live recordings]].		For the purposes of referencing content on PickiPedia, it's reasonable to include, for example, recordings on archive.org which have express permissions from the artist which have the same affordances as one of the established Creative Commons licenses, such as [[Sam Grisman Project#Custom Copyleft License\|the license text authored by Sam Grisman]] to enable sharing and distribution of his project's live recordings.

	== Recording a license ==		== Recording a license ==

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	'''Creative Commons''' licenses are a formalization of the agreement established between the [[wikipedia:Grateful Dead]] and [[wikipedia:Taper_(concert)\|concert tapers]] in the 1960s and 70s.		'''Creative Commons''' licenses are a formalization of the agreement established between the [[wikipedia:Grateful Dead\|Grateful Dead]] and [[wikipedia:Taper_(concert)\|concert tapers]] in the 1960s and 70s.

	These licenses empower artists to release their music in efficient, censorship-resistant, fan-friendly ways, such as via peer-to-peer networks and lossless audio formats which are [[DRM-free]].		These licenses empower artists to release their music in efficient, censorship-resistant, fan-friendly ways, such as via peer-to-peer networks and lossless audio formats which are [[DRM-free]].

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	These licenses empower artists to release their music in efficient, censorship-resistant, fan-friendly ways, such as via peer-to-peer networks and lossless audio formats which are [[DRM-free]].		These licenses empower artists to release their music in efficient, censorship-resistant, fan-friendly ways, such as via peer-to-peer networks and lossless audio formats which are [[DRM-free]].


	'''Everywhere that records and shows are displayed on PickiPedia, Creative Commons-compatible media are given priority. See: [[PickiPedia:Release Types]]'''		'''Everywhere that records and shows are displayed on PickiPedia, Creative Commons-compatible media are given priority. See: [[PickiPedia:Release Types]]'''

	* [https://opensource.com/article/18/2/grateful-dead-precursor-creative-commons-licensing How the Grateful Dead were a precursor to Creative Commons licensing]


	=== Compatible Licenses and agreements ===		=== Compatible Licenses and agreements ===
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			* [https://opensource.com/article/18/2/grateful-dead-precursor-creative-commons-licensing How the Grateful Dead were a precursor to Creative Commons licensing]

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	These licenses empower artists to release their music in efficient, censorship-resistant, fan-friendly ways, such as via peer-to-peer networks and lossless audio formats which are [[DRM-free]].		These licenses empower artists to release their music in efficient, censorship-resistant, fan-friendly ways, such as via peer-to-peer networks and lossless audio formats which are [[DRM-free]].

	'''Everywhere that records and shows are displayed on PickiPedia, Creative Commons-compatible media are given priority.'''		'''Everywhere that records and shows are displayed on PickiPedia, Creative Commons-compatible media are given priority. See: [[PickiPedia:Release Types]]'''

	* [https://opensource.com/article/18/2/grateful-dead-precursor-creative-commons-licensing How the Grateful Dead were a precursor to Creative Commons licensing]		* [https://opensource.com/article/18/2/grateful-dead-precursor-creative-commons-licensing How the Grateful Dead were a precursor to Creative Commons licensing]

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	A '''Creative Commons''' ~~licence is one~~ the ~~people who made a recording chose,~~ in ~~advance, to let you use it: to copy it, pass it to somebody, play it on~~ the ~~radio, learn it note for note~~ and ~~put your own version out. Some ask that you credit them; some ask that what you make be shareable in turn. None of them require you to ask first~~.		'''Creative Commons''' licenses are a formalization of the agreement established between the [[wikipedia:Grateful Dead]] and [[wikipedia:Taper_(concert)\|concert tapers]] in the 1960s and 70s.

	~~PickiPedia treats that as worth saying out loud. A musician's page lists the records they played on under a heading naming this~~, ~~and a record that is not under~~ such ~~a licence is listed separately, below — see [[Template:In the studio]]~~ and [[~~Template:Other studio work~~]].		These licenses empower artists to release their music in efficient, censorship-resistant, fan-friendly ways, such as via peer-to-peer networks and lossless audio formats which are [[DRM-free]].

	~~That ordering is a claim about what this wiki is for. A recording you can pass to somebody is worth more here than one you can only point at~~.		'''Everywhere that records and shows are displayed on PickiPedia, Creative Commons-compatible media are given priority.'''

	~~== What~~ the ~~badge means ==~~		* [https://opensource.com/article/18/2/grateful-dead-precursor-creative-commons-licensing How the Grateful Dead were a precursor to Creative Commons licensing]

	The licence beside a record is the one recorded on the record's own page, written as its own name: <code>CC BY-SA 4.0</code>, <code>CC0</code>. It is shown rather than flattened to a yes-or-no, because which licence it is matters to somebody deciding what they may do with it — whether they must credit, whether they must share alike.

	~~Where no licence is recorded~~, the ~~record is listed as other work. Unknown is not~~ the same as ~~unfree~~, ~~but treating it~~ as ~~free would be a claim nobody has checked~~.		=== Compatible Licenses and agreements ===
			For the purposes of referencing content on PickiPedia, it's reasonable to include, for example, recordings on archive.org which have express permissions from the artist which have the same affordances as one of the established Creative Commons licenses, such as [[Sam Grisman Project#Custom Copyleft License\|the license text authored by Sam Grisman to enable sharing and distribution of his project's live recordings]].

	== ~~The licences you will see here~~ ==		== Recording a license ==

	* ~~'''CC BY''' — use it, credit the maker.~~		* The Creative Commons organization maintains a "chooser" to help select the license that fits your musical project: https://creativecommons.org/chooser/
	* '''CC BY-SA''' — use it, credit the maker, and licence what you make from it the same way. The ~~records on this wiki are mostly this.~~
	* '''CC0''' — the ~~maker gave up their claim entirely.~~
	* '''Public domain''' — nobody holds a claim, usually because it is old enough.

	~~Creative Commons also publishes licences with '''NC''' (non-commercial) and '''ND''' (no derivatives) in their names. They are still Creative Commons licences and are treated as such here~~, ~~but they are narrower: ND in particular forbids the arrangement, the cover, the remix — which is most of what musicians do with each other's work.~~		Then, on the pickipedia page for your record, in {{tl\|Record}}:

	~~== Recording a licence ==~~

	On the record~~'s page~~, in {{tl\|Record}}:

	<pre>		<pre>
	{{Record		{{Record
	\|artist = ~~Justin Myles Holmes~~		\|artist = <band name>
	\|license = CC BY-SA 4.0		\|license = CC BY-SA 4.0
	}}		}}
	</pre>		</pre>

	~~Only record what you have actually checked. A licence is a statement about somebody else's rights, and guessing at it here would put words in their mouth.~~

	~~[[Category:PickiPedia]]~~

Magent: What the Creative Commons heading on a musician's page is promising (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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What the Creative Commons heading on a musician's page is promising (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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A '''Creative Commons''' licence is one the people who made a recording chose, in advance, to let you use it: to copy it, pass it to somebody, play it on the radio, learn it note for note and put your own version out. Some ask that you credit them; some ask that what you make be shareable in turn. None of them require you to ask first.

PickiPedia treats that as worth saying out loud. A musician's page lists the records they played on under a heading naming this, and a record that is not under such a licence is listed separately, below — see [[Template:In the studio]] and [[Template:Other studio work]].

That ordering is a claim about what this wiki is for. A recording you can pass to somebody is worth more here than one you can only point at.

== What the badge means ==

The licence beside a record is the one recorded on the record's own page, written as its own name: <code>CC BY-SA 4.0</code>, <code>CC0</code>. It is shown rather than flattened to a yes-or-no, because which licence it is matters to somebody deciding what they may do with it — whether they must credit, whether they must share alike.

Where no licence is recorded, the record is listed as other work. Unknown is not the same as unfree, but treating it as free would be a claim nobody has checked.

== The licences you will see here ==

* '''CC BY''' — use it, credit the maker.
* '''CC BY-SA''' — use it, credit the maker, and licence what you make from it the same way. The records on this wiki are mostly this.
* '''CC0''' — the maker gave up their claim entirely.
* '''Public domain''' — nobody holds a claim, usually because it is old enough.

Creative Commons also publishes licences with '''NC''' (non-commercial) and '''ND''' (no derivatives) in their names. They are still Creative Commons licences and are treated as such here, but they are narrower: ND in particular forbids the arrangement, the cover, the remix — which is most of what musicians do with each other's work.

== Recording a licence ==

On the record's page, in {{tl|Record}}:

<pre>
{{Record
|artist = Justin Myles Holmes
|license = CC BY-SA 4.0
}}
</pre>

Only record what you have actually checked. A licence is a statement about somebody else's rights, and guessing at it here would put words in their mouth.

[[Category:PickiPedia]]