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New Copyright Licence Allows Remixing In UK

Posted by timothy on from the catching-up-with-reality dept.

BearJ writes "Yahoo is reporting that Creative Commons is set to launch a new copyright licence in the UK that will allow for 'remix' use. Technically this use of another's works are illegal. Next month's Wired magazine will contain a CD licenced under this scheme, so sampling is permitted. More info on the Creative Commons site."

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  1. Step backwards? by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This might be a step backwards. A more worthy goal might be to work toward getting affirmation that all such sampling, perhaps with sample size limits, is covered under fair use. By promoting a license that explicitly allows this use, it seems CC is validating the view, recently upheld in one single court case, that sampling is never permitted under fair use.

    It's a bit as though they had come out and published a new "linking policy license" that web sites could post to explicitly allow other sites to create inbound links. Would that help the overall cause of discouraging bogusly restrictive linking policies? I'm not sure that it would.