I'm a volunteer on the board of The Metabrainz Foundation, the nonprofit that maintains the Metabrainz service that produces accurate metadata on music that helps listeners locate the music they love and musicians and services accurately allocate revenues from online services. Metabrainz's material is strictly Creative Commons, including the art its users include in their updates to the database. Last summer, Metabrainz was served with a lawsuit by Larry Philpot, a "photographer" (as one court put it, "a professional photographer, in his view") who has a history of making his photos available under Creative Commons licenses, then suing Creative Commons users who reproduce them, arguing that they violated the license terms, based on extremely idiosyncratic interpretations of those terms. Metabrainz knew that it was in the right, but a copyright fight could be very expensive.
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