Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows

Re:Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows by almost on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:49AM (#1783329)

I think I'm missing the point here, it sounds like what has been banned is the use of non-commercial CC licensed music in places which may qualify as commercial sometimes. That sounds pretty sensible. It's either that or go to each individual artist and negotiate a commercial license which sounds like a pain to do.

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Re:Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows by sprout on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:57AM (#1783822)

That's incorrect. Their position is that there's not a significant amount of CC licensed music without an NC attached, and it's too difficult to tell the difference, so they're banning all CC music regardless of whether or not it's CC-NC.

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Re:Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows by warfangle on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:17AM (#1783680)

Well, they had issues with using non-commercial CC licensed music in commercial situations. But instead of simply limiting their use to commercial CC licensed music, they discontinued all CC licensed music. It seems like too sweeping of a measure.

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Re:Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows by zacharypinter on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:04AM (#1783395)

Yep. Seems like the whole issue was blown way out of proportion.

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Re:Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows by spot on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:59AM (#1783831)

Nope, they banned all CC works instead of noncommercial ones.

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