<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517320063890_300810"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517320063890_300940">Reproducing, publicly performing or redistributing a copyrighted work without a license is illegal almost everywhere (China/Russia/etc. may be exceptions). RIP The Pirate Pay, Megaupload, etc. Not that some folks haven't made a ton of money doing it anyway until a crack-down. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517320063890_300975"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517320063890_300941">Andreas<br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, February 3, 2018 12:07 PM, Paul Brown <paul.brown@kde.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">Hello Camilo,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Not a lawyer either and you would need confirmation from a legal expert, but <br clear="none">you questions are not hard:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> 1- I would like to either have the option to *stream live* the music an<br clear="none">> user is currently listening to to a group of friends. here the music file<br clear="none">> isn't being storaged in the audience computer...<br clear="none">> How ilegal is it? How illegal is to stream live, but privately, copyrighted<br clear="none">> music? and how illegal is it to stream owns music content to a selected<br clear="none">> group of friends?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This is illegal in most countries, since it is akin to file-sharing. In <br clear="none">Germany they can fine private users up to € 1,000 euros for this.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Solution: Build in a license-identifier and allow streaming of music only <br clear="none">under permissive licenses or in the public domain.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> 2- If the stream part wouldn't be enough problem, I'd also like to sync a<div class="yqt0888448848" id="yqtfd24254"><br clear="none">> user playlist marked as public to some other friends, that would mean to<br clear="none">> share music files between users, and technically downloading another users<br clear="none">> music files. How illegal is this part? how illegal is to share a music file<br clear="none">> for example, in a conversation in telegram or whatsapp, or even how illegal<br clear="none">> is it to send a mp3 to a friend over an email or even over google drive?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Illegal in most countries because it is actual file-sharing of copyrighted <br clear="none">material. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Solution 1: see above and only allow sharing of music distributed under <br clear="none">permissive licenses.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Solution 2: allow sharing the playlist, only the list, but not the files <br clear="none">themselves. Excuse me because I don't know much about your software, but, if <br clear="none">you share the list, surely there would be a way to allow the receiving users <br clear="none">to compile the list from their existing collection and complete it legally by <br clear="none">facilitating purchasing of the missing songs from a store or using an online <br clear="none">streaming service like Spotify (or whatever kids use nowadays).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There is a silver-lining though: If you do implement a license identifier (I <br clear="none">have no idea how that would work) and users see the additional advantage of <br clear="none">listening to free (as in freedom) because of the extra features they can <br clear="none">enjoy, you will be helping the Free Culture movement.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Paul<br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Promotion & Communication<br clear="none"><br clear="none">www: <a shape="rect" href="http://kde.org/" target="_blank">http://kde.org</a><br clear="none">Mastodon: <a shape="rect" href="https://mastodon.technology/@kde" target="_blank">https://mastodon.technology/@kde</a><br clear="none">Facebook: <a shape="rect" href="https://www.facebook.com/kde/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/kde/</a><br clear="none">Twitter: <a shape="rect" href="https://twitter.com/kdecommunity" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/kdecommunity</a><div class="yqt0888448848" id="yqtfd60217"><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>