[cc-community] CC+?

Giorgos Cheliotis giorgos at smu.edu.sg
Tue Oct 9 18:55:42 EDT 2007


>From what I understand regarding the intentions of CC+ and also based on the technical description, CC+ just provides a link to a site where additional rights can be negotiated. This can be any type of rights, exclusive to one licensee or non-exclusive. CC+ is agnostic to that, it just provides the link to the place where all the business can happen. It is up to that place/site to use a magnatune-like model of exclusive licensing, or a model based on a "switching price" for non-exclusive licensing. 
 
Let me say again that I find the idea of paying artists to free their works to the public excellent and I wonder whether it can be implemented (i.e. whether enough people would be willing to pay for this, or whether funds/institutions/organizations can be set up with the purpose of freeing works in this manner). 
 
 
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From: cc-community-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Terry Hancock
Sent: Wed 10/10/2007 4:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [cc-community] CC+?



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

Well, actually transferring a license from CC-By-NC --> CC-By or
CC-By-NC-SA --> CC-By-SA is actually legally SIMPLER than licensing
works to single entities, because no exclusive licenses are involved.

As for pooling funds and so forth, that needn't be a CC+ project at all
-- CC+ need only provide the compatibility for license brokers who will
provide such services.

So the only question here is whether the CC+ technical concepts would
permit such arrangements to be negotiated.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com <http://www.anansispaceworks.com/> 

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