[cc-community] Critique a short essay on Free music?

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 23:44:02 EST 2007


There's also the technicality that licenses like CC and the GPL all rely on
copyright to derive their legal force. If you break the conditions of the
license then you are liable for copyright infringement.  The penalty for
doing so is much greater than breaking a contract.


Fred


On Nov 6, 2007 11:27 PM, Andrew Rens <andrewrens at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> As you probably guessed, in such a large and wonderfully diverse community
> we don't all agree.
>
> There are obviously very many who don't agree with Lucas's claim that
> Attribution ShareAlike is "not anti-copyright" since under current
> conditions Share-Alike and similar licences (such as GNU GPL) subvert
> copyright by keeping work open for re-use, thus ensuring it remains in the
> commons, rather than being appropriated by someone else.
>
>
>
>
> On 07/11/2007, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In this new age, copyright seems quaint and redundant.
> >
> > The Attribution-ShareAlike license you are using is not anti-copyright
> > at all.  It is a strong assertion of your copyright.
> >
> > So you might want to rethink this statement.  It seems to me that your
> > angle is about who copyright is working for -- the listener and
> > musician, or the investor -- rather than about the existence of
> > copyright.
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