UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue

Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by trothamel on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:27PM (#9219071)

Perhaps there needs to be a version of the Creative Commons with a group kill-switch, where if a licensee violates the terms of the license, they lose the rights to use all CC-KS works until the violations have been remedied.

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Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by TillE on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:47PM (#9220299)

Not sure I'd go that far, but it's certainly an argument for CC-BY over CC0. With CC-BY they must credit you, and you can then either trivially prove your ownership of the work, or demonstrate copyright infringement (if they have violated the license).

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Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by spiritplumber on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:35PM (#9219130)

That's a great idea, isn't there a common "defensive patents chest" for this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatentFreedom Looks like they got bought out by an Intellectual Ventures clone. One of my regrets in life is that I have lived within trebuchet range of the main IV office, and never did anything with it.

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Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by jamii on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @01:51PM (#9219817)

http://defensivepatentlicense.org/ - if you license all of your patents under the DPL you then get free licenses to all other DPL patents. Your membership and licenses are revoked if you sue any other member for patent infringement.

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