[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense

rob at robmyers.org rob at robmyers.org
Mon Aug 20 11:14:24 EDT 2007


Andrew "please give me an interview Larry, pleeease!"* Orlowski has  
his sights on liblicense, the CC licensing module being used in OLPC:

"The music industry has a long and shameful history of robbing black  
artists of their rights. Now along comes some new software that will  
help speed up the job. Think of it as a sort of 1-Click "non-payment"  
system."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/one_click_colonialism/

As usual, Orlowski's article is deliberately inflamatory linkbait. I'd  
link to the Google cache but El Reg need their page views so there  
isn't one.

That said, I'm sure that more grown up versions of this objection will  
be aired. And I think they will deserve answering.

- Rob.

* - Speech marks do not indicate literal quote.





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