What are you saying? This is an open source project that is connected to the fediverse. It aims to be something comparable to soundcloud where people can share their music. What about this is says monetization?
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aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What if we added a P2P element so we could share our music and own it instead of streaming it? Oh wait, that’s soulseek.
Who keeps posting this? This feels inches away from a monetized subscription service.
chris@l.roofo.cc 2 months ago
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The publishing in the add copy. There’s no talk of how licensing is handled or who hosts what where. Just because it starts off as OSS and self hosted does not mean it stays that way.
chris@l.roofo.cc 2 months ago
I am unsure if I understand you correctly. Funkwhale is for you to publish music or other audio you make yourself. Not for your commercial music library. And the software itself is under the GNU AGPLv3. You can host the software yourself on your own server or you join an instance of someone else. Just like lemmy, mastodon or all the other fediverse projects.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Correct, so when I post my song I created to Funkwhale, it’s then federated across the fediverse, living on other servers and able to be downloaded.
Let’s say I use the wikimedia license and allow reproduction of my music as long as I’m credited.
Someone in the fediverse likes my song and they download it. Then use it in their licensed DRM enabled media and give me no credit.
Who then protects my license and attribution rights beside myself? Does this open up others in the fediverse who hosted my media and allowed download to suit? The courts that would hear the case are unlikely to provide a distinction between the user who stole my media and those hosting it.
What prevents Funkwhale from charging a fee for their streaming app and profiting from my song and cutting me out of profit share? Which is exactly what digital distributors do all the time?
How does Funkwhale prevent the upload and sharing of licensed music by unlicensed parties?
None of this is referenced in the documentation or ad copy on the site.
I’ve seen funkwhale posted here multiple times, and these questions are never addressed.
butter@midwest.social 2 months ago
I don’t think you’re supposed to host music you don’t have the rights to. I think you’re supposed to post your own music
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s fare enough, so who handles licensing. How do you protect the copy left aspect of your music? How do you prevent your work from being freebooted?
butter@midwest.social 2 months ago
You can disable downloading if your music is copyrighted. Or a layer for copy left of someone tries to take credit.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where’s that in the documentation?