Also, I daresay someone will comment about whether this is something that I should share or not. I have taken care to keep the stories themselves complete, but have (for convenience) removed the various intros and outros and am not sure if this breaks the creative commons license or not.
---
In that case it sounds like we need to get in touch with one or the other. Someone who could speak for EA (and could therefore grant permission) would probably be more useful. Can you suggest someone?
Hello all, Marguerite here.
Short version: It's fine that you made these files for your personal enjoyment; please don't share these files with others.
Longer, more detailed version:This is an impressive amount of work, and I appreciate that from your perspective, you're trying to share the results of that labor with others who might want to do the same type of per-story reviewing as you have done.
While there's nothing wrong with making these files for your own personal enjoyment, making them available to others isn't allowed by the Creative Commons licence under which they were released.
In other words, yes, it 'breaks' the licence.The reason EA uses the specific CC licence it does is because
it represents the rights for which we pay our authors and narrators. EA itself can't exceed that use -- it can't, for example, make a movie from one of the stories. Your 'one song from a CD' analogy doesn't quite work here; a more accurate description would be ripping individual verses from a single song.
Finally, coming on to your request for permission, and/or to host the collection,
we respectfully decline. Sub-dividing flash collections into their individual stories robs the episode of its editorial intention, especially when interstitial commentary is stripped out. Everyone at EA accepts and understands that not every story will be to every listener's taste, and we all work hard to make sure listeners can make informed decisions about their listening through content warnings. Regardless of whether your alterations are permitted by the applicable CC licence (they're not), it's not the way the episode was intended to be enjoyed. It's not the way those editors chose to publish the stories, and it's not a way EA supports making them available to its listeners.
I hope this has been helpful. What follows is a more detailed break-down of the CC licence as it applies here.
For next steps, kindly either remove the Dropbox link or alter its permissions so that others may not access it.Best,
Marguerite
Creative Commons Crash CourseThe Creative Commons is a licencing structure that lets the owner of a creative work make it available to the public using easy to understand shorthand about what they do and don't agree others can do with that work. All of EA's episodes are released under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence:
- BY stands for 'attribution', which means the original source of the file and its CC rating must remain with all the content at all times. Stripping an episode down to just the narration removes the attribution. We regularly find YouTubers who do this and require them to take the content down.
- NC stands for 'non-commercial'. Use beyond personal -- in this case, making the archive available to others, as you have with the Dropbox link -- can be considered commercial regardless of whether payment is required. Even 'marketing activity' is commercial; you can't slap a Marvel or Disney logo on a charity event poster.
- ND stands for 'no derivatives'. Making alterations to the file in any form, such as removing intros and outros, is a derivative. Podcast episodes which permit derivatives are generally released under the 'Sharealike' licence.
- Without getting into legal details, the Fair Use doctrine does not apply here. I recommend this article if you'd like to learn more.
Edited to correct typos which impacted clarity.
