[cc-community] CC+?

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Oct 10 10:32:12 EDT 2007


drew Roberts wrote:
> Along the involuntary collective lines, I suggest that we push for all such 
> financing to require Free licensing on the resulting works as a requirement 
> of obtaining such funding. ~;-)

Heh. Well, drew, I suspect that's in the "if you pay for the system, you
can run it however you like" category. ;-)

I don't think this need to be a political issue -- clearly a funding
site that funds creation of free-licensed works is going to be more
popular anyway. There's really not that much motivation to create such a
system for non-free content, because:

1) Utility is severely reduced for the "public", making them question
why they should pay anything (no one wants to *pay* for an NC license to
something)

2) For those who simply want to use the work, all they need is a
download and the right to use it privately (this market is well-served)

3) Trying to finance NC/ND licensing this way of ARR works is pretty
pointless -- the main point of NC/ND is marketing, and only an idiot
charges for people to access their advertisements

About the only thing it could work for is if a major record label wanted
to "ransom" well-known pop songs to the NC domain. Which actually would
be forward momentum for us. But, I really doubt they could make more
money that way than by retaining their ARR and trying to sell copies.

So, I'm pretty sure the market will do what you want without prompting.

Cheers,
Terry

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



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