----- Original message ----- > Dne ponedeljek 1. marca 2010 ob 07:04:37 je Matt Lee napisal(a): > > Let's not forget that free songs are often copyrighted, but that > > Libre.fm will never be allowing nonfree materials for download. > > Well, to be strict, all songs with a known author are copyrighted. Free/libre > songs are only licensed then with a copyleft license on top of that. > > What did you have in mind here then? Free as in beer songs that are not > subject to any free/libre license?
You can "uncopyright" a song by releasing it into the public domain (e.g. CC0 waiver), and there are non-copyleft free licences (e.g. CC BY). I think Matt was just trying to clarify that it's not "copyrighted" music that would raise legal issues, rather it's the free versus non-free (libre) distinction that's relevant. It's not quite accurate for us to say "copyrighted" when we really mean "non-free," but I think we all knew what you meant. Good to be accurate though.
