[cc-community] CC+?

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Tue Oct 9 15:08:22 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:20 -0400, drew Roberts wrote:
> On Saturday 06 October 2007 09:55 am, Terry Hancock wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Bingo! A+++ for that. I have been trying to talk up a similar plan for years. 
> It could of course also go from CC BY-NC to CC BY-SA instead if the creator 
> so specified.
> 
> Naturally, this would be complicated somewhat in the remix areas. I could only 
> go from CC BY-NC to CC BY-SA on original works or works with side 
> permissions.
> 
> Can someone think of a generalised, up frint mechanism to handle this problem?
> 
> But I want to give my hearty endorsement to a plan along these lines for so 
> long as CC keeps the NC and ND licenses around.

Interesting idea guys...can mull around more, but we want to keep CC+
simple, etc, so that is a key focus...

cheers

Jon

> >
> > 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
> 
> all the best,
> 
> drew
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