The rocky landscape that maps today’s music related businesses and industries naturally presents copious opportunities for the growth of innovative services. Unfortunately, traditional power structures backed by acquired rights and political influence continue to create impediments resulting in inefficiencies and a plethora of social costs. This Copyright & Licensing presentation and discussion reflects the backbone of a recent thesis produced for the Stockholm University master program in intellectual property law.

Currently, GEMA is the only collecting society for music composers in Germany, while GVL is the only society to represent the performing musicians. Members of these two societies cannot license their music themselves, because the societies demand trasfer of all exclusive rights to the complete repertoire of each member. But what about musicians who want to license their music under Creative Commons licenses? First of all, they cannot become members of the societies. And some of them might not even be interested in a commercial exploitation of their works.

Europäische EDV-Akademie des Rechts

This session is not focused on the issue of Creative Commons NC (Non Commercial) licences not being defined exactly enough to allow for exploitation by standards. It's about the issues that artists are fighting when trying to make money from Creative Commons content. Or is it just like, CC vs. Money - that's a paradox? Why not deciding to license under Creative Commons so that you can decide yourself as an artist and composer whom to license to?

Artists, tompigs.com