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

[Kuno Woudt]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:32:24AM +0800, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> > 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).

Ok, I just briefly spoke to ruaok.  I was wrong about a musicbrainz page
with cover art being a derived work, there needs to be some creative
process to create a 'work' under US copyright law.  A computer
aggregrating data generally does not create new works.

Anyway, ruaok intends to clean up / rewrite the CoverArt wiki page
Real Soon Now, that should clear things up a bit on that topic.

-- kuno.