[mb-users] Adding links to your own cover scans?

[Philip Jägenstedt]

> Hm, from my understanding of copyright law the resulting page on
> musicbrainz would be a derived work of the original cover art.  For
> copyright law, it doesn't really matter on which server any of the bits
> are stored.  I'll have to ask ruaok on what grounds the lawyers decided
> to allow archive.org, because it seems like shady business to me :).

Yes, that could use some clarification. I don't want to be doing
anything which would mean that MusicBrainz is infringing (even if we
never get caught).

> That the risk of 'getting caught' is very low is not a valid argument
> for breaking the law IMO.

Well not by itself, but the usefullnes to us and complete lack of harm
to anyone else does, IMO. But let's not get into the philosophy of
law, or we will be soon be questioning the axioms of each others
ethical systems. The only thing that matters is if this is a legal
problem for MB or not.

Philip