[mb-users] Using archive.org for cover art

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but someone has changed the status of
archive.org at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/CoverArtSites to "blue",
whatever that is supposed to mean. Is this issue no closer to having a
solution than it was 4 months ago?

Philip

On 10/12/07, Philipp Wolfer <phw at rubyforge.org> wrote:
> 2007/10/12, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org>:
> > 1. anything that is legal is permitted unless it is explicitly
> > disallowed (by the below rules or per the wish of the specific site
> > operator)
> > 2. when adding a larger amount of covers from a single site, ask for
> > permission from the site operator (even if the site does not hold any
> > relevant copyrights) and put the result for everyone to see in
> > CoverArtSites
>
> I like Philip's opinions. I would however make the guidelines more
> specific and I would require the site owner's permission even if we
> use only a few images.
>
> 1. If we have explicit permission to use a sites cover art directly,
> we can use it.
> 2. If we have the explicit permission to use a sites cover art but not
> their bandwidth, we use archive.org
> 3. Cover art from community sites, where the community has placed
> their content explicitly  under an open license (e.g. Creative
> Commons), can be used via archive.org.
> 4. Single artwork under open licenses can be used via archive.org
> 5. In all other cases we must ask for permission.
>
> IMHO points 2-4 are valid uses of archive.org without any social
> problems. If a community chooses to release their work under an open
> license they expect (and must expect) their work to be used, and with
> the license they give permission to do so.
>
> One point about Creative Commons licenses: It's possible that they
> can't always be used without problems. The "Attribution" licenses for
> example require that you give proper credit when using that image.
> Currently there is no way in MB to do that.
>
> --
> Philipp Wolfer
>
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