BinzyBoi

Howdy y'all,

I've been working on a community by the name of NC-SA Bops. This isn't self-promotion, but basically it's a community to showcase music licensed under the BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license. However, things have gotten a little confusing, and I'm hoping to see if I can get them cleared up.

There's a number of circumstances I need to deal with regularly. First off is what to do when the license is mismatched across multiple platforms. Sometimes I'll see a song posted to Soundcloud stating the work is BY-NC-SA, only to have it marked as "All Rights Reserved" or "BY-SA" on other platforms like BandCamp. I was curious what I should do in these situations. Do I assume most or least restrictive?

Also sometimes I'll come across something where in the description it'll mark the track as BY-NC-SA, but the Creative Commons link showcases another license such as "BY-SA" or "BY-NC-ND". In these cases would I assume based on the description, or the linked license?

Sometimes I'll come across some music released through a record label that'll have the BY-NC-SA license applied to the track. However I was curious if the record labels have this right, or if I should avoid sourcing tracks from labels and publishers.

Lastly, if a musician has a song included in a release involving multiple artists, with a publisher or label, does the musician themselves have the right to mark their work in the Creative Commons, or would that be up to the publishers or labels?

Thanks in advance. This would help me greatly in how to appropriately source tracks for the community I'm building.

This is a genuine question. June is generally accepted to be Pride Month in Canada, but that seems to be the case more or less to line up with Pride Month in the U.S., where it marks the month of the Stonewall Riots in New York City.

Now one can say we also celebrate Pride Month in June because that's apparently the same month same-sex activity was decriminalized back in 1969, but if we're going to have a Pride Month that represents the struggle of 2SLGBTQ+ folk, why not base it in August?

Basing it in August makes sense since that's when the We Demand Rally took place in 1971, Pride Week 1973 took place, and it's better weather-wise than having it take place in January when the Brunswick Four were arrested.

I'm in Calgary, and having Pride Month recognised as August in Canada would also help out with regional difficulties here, where Pride Month is held in September because of June being the insanely busy Stampede season.

This is just my thoughts here. I just think it would be better to recognise and commemorate Canadian pride history rather than attach our pride history to that of the U.S., and the thought of having these major events in our pride overshadowed by American pride history honestly worries me.