Netlabel: Webbed Hand Creative Commons Licenses

Webbed Hand Records Creative Commons Licenses

Webbed Hand Records has licensed all of its creative releases under a Creative Commons licenses. It's a legally binding copyright license which (as the CC website states) lies somewhere on the "spectrum between full copyright --all rights reserved-- and the public domain --no rights reserved."

I have chosen to assign CC copyrights to the work because I am not very happy with traditional "Mickey Mouse" copyright laws (all rights reserved, life + 70 years), because they inhibit the sharing of ideas and keep works out of the public domain for too long. most of the albums in our catalog are non-commercial Netlabel releases, and I want to encourage dissemination of the work, especially to encourage creative use of the work, such as sampling and file-sharing. I also want to set an example for other artists. If we all begin placing our work under Creative Commons licenses, we may be able to undermine the tyranny of intellectual property laws.

The following Creative Commons license is being used by Webbed Hand, and the works listed below the license link are those to which it has been applied (see the catalog for detailed information about each release):

All content of this body of work (recordings & cover art) is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

These licenses are subject to change, and in all likelihood if they do, it will be to move them further down the spectrum toward Public Domain.

page last