Talk:Fan-Domain License

🙄 Oh dear…

This does not make sense!!!

• The Fan-Domain License F-DL (not to confuse with FDL !!!) is a variant of the Public Domain status of a lyrical work like a song, a ballad or a poem.

→ Public Domain is the absense of copyright. There are no variants of Public Domain, and a license is not a variant of the Public Domain status. A license is a contract that grants rights. This here is not a license, as no rights are granted…

• addresses NOT the whole world's people as the ones allowed to use the F-DL-licensed artwork freely

→ This contradicts the definition of Free Cultural Works.

• It addresses ONLY the friends and fans of a certain set of people, and those speakers or singers who recite or sing the F-DL artwork by order of that set of people and/or its fans and friends.

→ Completely vague. In order to make sense of it, you need further information on that “further set of people”.

These formal issues aside, have you really thought the implications of this license idea through? If you apply this to your football song, and you only allow fans of your club to use the song, that would mean:

• Only those fans are allowed to copy and distribute the song. Everyone else → copyright violation!
• Only those fans are allowed to sing the song in public. Everyone else → copyright violation!

To me, this doesn’t make sense. Wouldn’t it be nice if people spread and sing this song for your club, even if they are not fans? -- Sloyment (talk) 02:36, 21 May 2026 (CEST)