On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:09:25AM +0000, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:37:49PM -0600, Danny Nicholas wrote: > > In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a > >legal music-on-hold file? > > One source of explicitly royalty-free music is the podcasting community: > http://uhort.no/ and http://www.podsafeaudio.com/ both have extensive > libraries.
Please double-check. I could not figure things from uhort.no, and podsafeaudio.com seemed partially down, but at least the one artist I did look at there licensed his work under the terms of CC-NC (actually version 2.0 of it) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ Any Non-Commercial member of the CC family will not allow you a usage in a cemmercial PBX. I'm not sure about any setup that is "non-commercial", as using a file for MoH may be considered public performance[1]. Surely you may be able to renogetiate other terms directly with the artist. But then you don't rely on the existing license. If you have content licensed under the terms of a CC license that does not prevent non-commercial use (CC-BY-SA or whatever), you should probably be OK[1]. There was another issue raied in a separate post: what if the author changes their mind later? Well, the CC licenses are irrivocable (just like the GPL). Unless the music was not his to license (was copied from elsewhere), you should be safe if you have it properly licensed. [1] As already noted, I'm not a lawyer. I may actually get some legal issues right. But then again, maybe not. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
