[cc-community] Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 01:21:33 EST 2007


On Nov 17, 2007 12:26 AM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:

> On Friday 16 November 2007 11:44:14 Fred Benenson wrote:
> > > As someone who is employed to persuade artists to license work under
> > > CC, I am in support of these considerations of the economic realities
> > > of creation and distribution, including CC+. I can tell ya', "the
> > > moral argument" alone sways too few.
> >
> > Amen to this -- too few people also understand that CC licenses have to
> be
> > put into rational (e.g., the economic definition of rational) terms for
> > people before they consider adopting them.  If you merely present free
> > culture / creative commons as purely "the right thing to do" without
> > appealing to creator's self interest, people tend to politely agree, but
> > end up believing something more along the lines of "its the right thing
> for
> > * other* people to do."
> >
> Well, let me make one stupid but simple point.
>
> If an artist puts their works under a BY-SA license, they protect it even
> for
> their own future use. They would not get this protection if they used
> plain
> old ARR copyright.
>
> How can this be?
>
> Say you have all this work and you have not put it under a BY-SA license
> (or
> other comparable Free Copyleft license)... You go bankrupt. Your
> copyrights
> get given to your creditors as partial settlement for your debts. You can
> end
> up not having the right to your own works...
>
> Am I off my rocker here? Is this impossible?
>
> If not, if you are an artist and want to ensure your future access to your
> own
> works, put them under a Free and copyleft license.
>
> Is that enough self interest?



Not really. First, most artists are not interested in planning on their
future insolvency, and Second: we can't be sure that future creditors would
value a work licensed under CC in the same way that a ARR work would be --
that is we shouldn't assume that CC licensed work would function
equivalently to ARR in terms of settling debts.

But a step in the right direction, but not nearly enough to outweigh the
promise of ARR copyright that so many artists have been conditioned to
believe in.


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