[cc-community] avoiding the CC licensing path by rights users

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Wed Apr 16 21:51:43 EDT 2008


On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:19:54 Kevin Phillips (home) wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:35:23 Lloyd wrote:
> >> John Hendrik Weitzmann wrote:
> >> > the assumption is accurate for almost all larger business bodies, I
> >>
> >> used
> >>
> >> > the word "usually", didn't suggest that it's going to stay this way
> >>
> >> for
> >>
> >> > all eternity and am not being purposely vague here in any way.
> >>
> >> I somehow feel that if someone licenses a BY-SA piece of work that gets
> >> incorporated into some advert for megacorp, that megacorp isn't going to
> >> be too worried about people redistributing their advert.
> >
> > They might not mind ND redistribution of hte ad, but I would figure a lot
> > will
> > have issues with repurposing the ad...
> >
> > Your thoughts?
>
> Especially if the redistribution is a parody remix, and becomes more
> popular than their original and thus distorts their intended message.
>
> It's an interesting thing to speculate about, personally I think the Sony
> example (on the wiki re: Blue Ray assets) is more likely a target-space
> for corporates, allowing them to provide example support materials for
> their hardware/products, whilst appearing all community-supportive in the
> process.

OK, but right now, getting some types to "legitimize" a Free and copyleft 
license and what goes with it as opposed to telling what a cancer it is might 
be a good first step.

We shall see, BY-Sa materials are showing up out in the wild more and more, I 
haven't seen too much BY-SA use by anyone big yet. (Specifically big corp 
big.)

Does anyone know different.
>
> hmmm...
>
> Kev

all the best,

drew




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