imeem, SNOCAP, and the :30 time limit
I often use imeem in my classroom for archiving student work and sharing audio with students. For example, see the playlist below that accompanied our recent Searching for the Perfect Beat project.
In that playlist, you may notice that NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” is but a thirty second snippet. This was not the case a few weeks ago when I used this playlist in class. From what I can tell, if rights-holders (usually a record label and not an artist) opt-out of imeem’s revenue-sharing model, SNOCAP restricts the playback of associated tracks to :30.
Sad to see the weakening of yet another community-built online library.
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May 28th, 2007 at 21:12:20 (PDT -04:00)
One thing to keep clear is that SNOCAP provides information about the rights holder status of the sound recordings identified on the social network site. The social network, armed with licensing information applied by rights holders to individual sound recordings, decides how to treat those user-uploaded files. It sounds like imeed has decided to restrict unlicensed content by playing only a 30 second clip.