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Revocable verbal license? Changing community?

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Grateful Dead fans are mad that "the band" (or at least some of the band) wanted to pull fan-made recordings off the archive.org site, as the Dead have allowed trading so long, this was a violation. The Dead point out that the trading was one-on-one, so it was a different activity for the community -- and had different economic impacts. Now, archive.org was likely not the first site to host such recordings, so why was this one selected? But are fans also saying that they have the right to extend the "license" they had from the Dead? While we hate those long, written contracts, they do provide some safety in how they delineate what happens when new technology comes down.

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posted by Dana Bostrom @ 12:14