[cc-community] CC+?
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sat Oct 6 09:55:22 EDT 2007
Nathan Yergler wrote:
> Basic information is in the wiki at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus.
Interesting. I see how this relates to the problems surrounding NC
licensing, and I applaud that.
The ability to license NC content commercially via a clearinghouse would
be a big step forward. It sounds like it's basically what Magnatune has
been doing, but generalized.
Nevertheless, it still seems to be mostly disjunct from the problem of
moving content from NC to SA domains, even though, in principle, a
similar mechanism could be used.
Is there any plan within the CC+ concept to allow for that?
IOW, collective buy-off of the NC term so that works go from
CC-By-NC/CC-By-NC-SA to CC-By/CC-By-SA if the author is satisfied with
the offer?
The use of a clearinghouse approach would make that much simpler as
multiple offers could be pooled so that popular works might be purchased
into the free commons by multiple interested parties.
My concept is that the author simply posts a "freedom price" on the work
via the clearinghouse, and the clearinghouse simply sums standing offers
to meet it. There are also some outside fundraising systems like
"fundable.com" that could take care of the actual pooling process if
it's not considered desireable to do it through CC+.
Then the only requirement on CC+ is to permit this kind of general
license-change offer instead of entity-specific limited licensing (I
imagine this puts some requirements on metadata schema, etc).
Cheers,
Terry
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