[cc-community] CC+?

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Wed Oct 10 20:49:55 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:52 -0500, Terry Hancock wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
> > I think you completely misunderstood my point and I may have misunderstood the 
> > point I responded to. I was not talking about the CC+ deal underdiscussion 
> > here.
> 
> Yeah, we're talking at complete cross-purposes here. :-)
> 
> Actually, THREE separate concepts have been conflated in this little
> threadlet:
> 
> 1) tax-dollar financed grants for artistic works
> 2) collecting society systems
> 3) collective purchasing of public rights in a work
> 
> 1 & 3 are closer to each other than is 2.
> 
> 2 is "collective" in artists. 1 & 3 are collective in buyers. 1 is fully
> coercive (you must pay taxes), 2 is semi-voluntary in some countries and
> coercive in others (depends on the laws surrounding collecting
> societies), and 3 is fully voluntary.
> 
> I was talking about 3, but omitted some specific verbage to make this
> clear. Hence the "Mr. Pickypants" post. ;-)
> 
> This came up, because I was suggesting that CC+ should be compatible
> with option 3 above, as well as the more common commercial rights deals
> that it was probably designed for.
> 
> I think if we want to discuss this any further, we need new threads. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry

Just channel it onto the CC+ wiki page...talk converted to action
time...

http://creativecommons.org/projects/ccplus

Thanks guys for your animated discussion on this :)

Jon

> 
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