Case Studies/MusicBrainz - Revision history

Reosarevok: Updating license info (see http://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/Data_License)

2013-04-23T21:03:27Z

Updating license info (see http://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/Data_License)

Culture25: Category:Public domain Category:Opensource

2011-12-20T01:51:13Z

Category:Public domain Category:Opensource

Culture25: Category:Database

2011-12-19T21:18:36Z

Category:Database

U.S. Curator: add category

2011-09-06T16:29:43Z

add category

CCID-jane at 21:38, 1 February 2011

2011-02-01T21:38:50Z

CCID-jane at 21:38, 1 February 2011

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CCID-jane at 21:31, 1 February 2011

2011-02-01T21:31:56Z

CCID-jane: Created page with "{{Case Study |Mainurl=http://musicbrainz.org/ |Image_Header=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/ae/Musicbrainz_logos_small.png |Image_attribution=CC BY-NC-SA by MusicBrainz ..."

2011-01-31T21:27:55Z

Created page with "{{Case Study |Mainurl=http://musicbrainz.org/ |Image_Header=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/ae/Musicbrainz_logos_small.png |Image_attribution=CC BY-NC-SA by MusicBrainz ..."

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{{Case Study
|Mainurl=http://musicbrainz.org/
|Image_Header=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/ae/Musicbrainz_logos_small.png
|Image_attribution=CC BY-NC-SA by MusicBrainz
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
}}
== Overview ==

'''Please provide an overview of the work. Describe the author or organization (location, funding/business model, partner organizations), objectives, current projects.'''

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== License Usage ==

'''Please specify the license adopted. How is the license applied? Can you provide any available statistics? What has been the author or organization's experience with Creative Commons licenses so far – what have been the benefits and lessons learned?'''

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== Motivations ==

'''How did the author or organization first hear about Creative Commons? Why did they choose to license under Creative Commons? Which license did they select and why? Any other issues you may have come across/comments you’d like to make.'''

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== Impact ==
'''What is the impact of this CC-enabled project or resource? Specifically, what has the license enabled that otherwise would not exist? Provide statistics or other data if possible.'''

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== Technical Details ==

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== Media ==
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 {{Case Study
 |Description=[http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz] is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music.
 |Quote=Musicbrainz plays an important role in blazing the path for open databases... We work hard to make our data useful and available to people, as we believe that Metcalfe’s law also applies to data. Thus, getting lots of people to use our data makes MusicBrainz vastly more useful and valuable.
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 |Image_attribution=CC BY-NC-SA by Robert Kaye, MusicBrainz
 |Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/
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 == Overview ==

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 |Description=[http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz] is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music.
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 == Overview ==
-'''Please provide an overview of the work. Describe the author or organization (location, funding/business model, partner organizations), objectives, current projects.'''
+== License Usage ==
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+The data on MusicBrainz is available as public domain material free to be reused without restrictions or under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. The distinctions between types of data are explained [http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_License here].
-== License Usage ==
+== Motivations ==
-'''Please specify the license adopted. How is the license applied? Can you provide any available statistics? What has been the author or organization's experience with Creative Commons licenses so far – what have been the benefits and lessons learned?'''
+:"MusicBrainz was initially created by Robert Kaye in response to Gracenote taking over the free CDDB project and charging people for access to the (what up till that point had been free) data."
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+From [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10336 CC Talks With Musicbrainz]:
-== Motivations ==
+:"We work hard to make our data useful and available to people, as we believe that Metcalfe’s law also applies to data. Thus, getting lots of people to use our data makes MusicBrainz vastly more useful and valuable. With that in mind, we want to be the de-facto standard for music metadata in the open content ecology."
-'''How did the author or organization first hear about Creative Commons? Why did they choose to license under Creative Commons? Which license did they select and why? Any other issues you may have come across/comments you’d like to make.'''
+:"We have a lot of data that is in the Public Domain, but some of it is creative output of our community and thus copyrightable. These copyrightable bits are placed under a CC non-commercial license, which then opens the door for licensing this content for commercial use. The CC data bundled with the Public Domain data gives us a package that we license for commercial use. In this case we do not license the Public Domain data, but we charge for convenient and timely access to the data. The CC licenses make it possible for us to operate with this new business model because people have vetted the licenses and are comfortable working with them."
 == Impact ==