[cc-community] CC+?
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Oct 10 03:04:26 EDT 2007
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:31 +0800, Giorgos Cheliotis wrote:
> Once a work is produced and published, its value can be better assessed
> and then an individual or a community of people can collect the funds
> required by the author to license the work more liberally, or to hand
> it to the public domain (where possible), if it is deemed that freeing
> the work in this manner will be of great benefit to this community or
> perhaps even to the world at large. I for one would be ready to
> support an organization set up to free cultural works in this manner.
Yes, SPP and similar can be used for existing work as well as new work,
indeed are simplified if used for the former.
The emphasis in most proposals is probably on the financing of new work
because that is the more interesting question from a social utility
perspective. If work exists you just have a distribution problem, which
isn't even what (idealized anyway) copyright addresses.
Paying ransom for existing works also could create bad expectations
(from a Free perspective) for the licensing of new work, eg, would it be
a better world if every new release of software had to be ransomed
before it became Free Software?
Of course cultural works differ from software in many ways. A serious
attempt at a buy-Freedom-for-cultural-works clearinghouse would be a
valuable experiment, one that I'd certainly support. And it would fit
perfectly with CC+'s super-duper-simple architecture. Indeed, it could
fit under the roof of a business also offering commercial licensing.
Terry Hancock:
> Yes, collective financing of public goods is a fairly old idea by now,
> though working implementations are few and not fully realized.
You forgot "voluntary" before "collective", otherwise the second part of
the sentence is clearly false. :)
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