[cc-community] [cc-licenses] New Generic and ports
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Sun Oct 8 17:53:07 EDT 2006
Andres are you on here? ;-)
Andres Guadamuz wrote:
> Peter has answered this really well, but let me add that I believe long
> chains of derivatives as those that can be found in software are less
> common in creative works.
I agree with this in general but there are two cases that require a
broad and shallow tree of derivatives across various jurisdictions:
- Over the next seventy or a hundred years there will be a lot of text,
audio and video formats. People will need to translate their work
between these formats.
- Studies done on Reggae "versions" show that a few key songs are
covered or reworked many, many times. I assume this is also the case for
other genres.
And one case that has chains so deep that the average Free Software
project would get a bit nervous:
- Wikipedia and other wikis, where some pages have had thousands of
edits and have now been copied to other web sites.
Culture is a long game but economic exploitation of culture is often a
much shorter game. I think that most people who have tried to answer the
question of how to make money from Free Culture have got it wrong to a
greater or lesser degree, but it is a question that needs answering.
I've written about this.
> Firstly, we must consider that there are a lot
> of No Derivatives licensed material out there. Secondly, in my short and
> limited experience looking at CC content and licences, I haven't
> encountered a lot of actual inter-jurisdiction licence incompatibility
> in existing licences. There have to be local differences, but these can
> actually help in local interpretation even if the user is employing a
> generic licence.
Definitely.
Watching the list discussing the drafting of the England & Wales license
and then the drafting of the Scottish license helped clarify the
licenses a lot for me. And the Creative Archive license drafting process
meant I'd thought through the issues around BY-SA/FDL compatibility
before that idea was raised.
- Rob.
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