[cc-community] Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 14:53:57 EST 2007


Thanks for more clarity, Larry.

Does anyone know if the FSF is planning on chiming in on any of this yet?
We've heard from CC and WMF obviously, but I'm curious to hear their take on
it all too.


Fred


On Dec 6, 2007 2:32 PM, Lawrence Lessig <larry at creativecommons.org> wrote:

> Last week the Wikimedia Foundation board took an important step[1]
> toward giving Wikipedia the right to choose to migrate to a Creative
> Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.  Credit goes to the Wikimedia
> Foundation and Free Software Foundation for having the wisdom and
> foresight to enable this progress.
>
> However, the real work has just begun. As Wikipedia founder Jimmy
> Wales put it[2]:
>
>        Now, community, we have a lot to talk about. :)
>
> For Creative Commons, this means continuing[3] a discussion concerning
> how the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license can be improved so as to not
> only be the best available license for a massively collaborative
> content project, but the best such license feasible.
>
> To start with, Wikimedia board member Erik Moeller has posted[4] a
> list of issues that we want to address -- with input from across the
> CC community.
>
> One of these issues holds particular interest: Should the ShareAlike
> requirement be more precisely defined for "embedded" media, and if so,
> how? For example, if an image licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike is
> used to illustrate an article, must the article be similarly licensed?
> This has previously been discussed[5] on the cc-licenses list, and we
> welcome the opportunity to drive that discussion to a happy
> conclusion.
>
> Tentatively the eventual outcome of these discussions will be a new
> version of the CC licenses. We'll say version 3.5 for now -- a
> significant improvement, but still within the framework of version
> 3.0[6] and folding in the work done so far on proposed version
> 3.01[7], thanks again to the Wikipedia community.
>
> The primary venue for this discussion focused on improving CC licenses
> is the cc-licenses list[8]. We encourage you to subscribe and
> participate. Of course related discussion will and should continue on
> Wikimedia and other lists.
>
> Thanks again to the WMF and FSF, and thanks in advance to you, the
> community, for the work that is ongoing and about to begin!
>
>
> Lawrence Lessig
> CEO
> Creative Commons
>
>
> [1] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7876
> [2]
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035554.html
> [3] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7718
> [4]
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035677.html
> [5]
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2007-February/thread.html#5142
> [6] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3
> [7] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_301
> [8] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses
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