Licence by GEMA

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Permalink Reply by Ayla Roble on April 21, 2010 at 2:46pm

Please, Jens: until which date you have to pay this? Maybe I can help here, but it depends on that information.

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Permalink Reply by Jens Mügge on April 21, 2010 at 7:22pm

Dear Ayla, maybe I shall pay for a licence since musicial content "protected" by the GEMA is hosted on this site. To be on the safe side I should pay yearly 150 € as soon as possible but if I start to accept this fee I have to purchase each year, year by year, a licence for this network. Let us wait if or what other members of this network will post to this thread. That the provider will phase out their free services seems to be the right time to re-think the existence of this network. Two days ago I read these thoughts:

"If you’re the creator of a social network, you should probably be passionate about the hobby, interest, community or business you decided to build a network around. And you should be attracting and enlisting equally passionate users as part of your community management plan. If you and your community can’t find a way to pay a modest monthly fee for the goods and services you use in your network, you might have one of two problems: You’re not passionate enough to moderate a community on your topic, or your topic isn’t inspiring your network to keep it afloat. [...]

Even if you’re a nonprofit or a hobbyist, running any kind of website is a business. If you’re not able to pay a small fee for the resources you use, you might want to consider a free or inexpensive multi-author blog instead."

and I wrote here that I have to switch this network in the offline modus. That is always an option - because I don't like to be a slave of a contract with Ning or the GEMA. If I purchase one time a licence for this site I have to purchase it each year - and if Ning decides now to phase out free open social networks what will happen at the moment if I can't pay for premium services anymore? I am waiting for other contributions to this discussion here. Do you know to how much members I send these group invitations and how much responsed until now? Less than 10 % of all members ...

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Permalink Reply by Ayla Roble on April 22, 2010 at 10:04am

Yes, I see your big problem: you are two thing to pay :-S ok I will wait May 4th for to know Ning prices and I will read you again. Nos I go to the other discuss.

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Permalink Reply by Jens Mügge on April 22, 2010 at 7:05pm

Yes, that is what I mean with: I have to pay not only for the rent (=Ning Premium Services) - I have to pay for the service charges (=GEMA Licence) too.

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