[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses

Kevin Phillips (home) tacet at qmpublishing.com
Sat Aug 9 16:15:07 EDT 2008


Hey Terry,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Hancock" <hancock at anansispaceworks.com>
To: <cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses


> Kevin Phillips (home) wrote:
>>> > One solution might be to rename the license -- it could be called
>>> > "commercial-rights-reserved" (CR), for example.
>>
>> Yes, great idea.  I think we've discussed this a little previously and 
>> came
>> up with a bunch of new naming conventions for good measure.  However,
>> it's not just a question of  "what's in a name".
>
> BTW, who's "we"? Clearly "we" on this list have discussed such things,
> but that rarely seems to have any impact on CC's decisions.

"We" was indeed a reference to the great and the good, aka the subscribers
of this list.  There's a lot of what seems to me to be common sense, in 
terms
of clarification of licensing and developing a collective understanding.

I for one appreciate the help.  I've had infinitely more help from here than 
from
any of the CC documentation or those infernal "deed" documents, for sure ;)

You're right, sometimes it does feel like folks on the list have arrived at 
a
really good conclusion/solution and that just gets lost in the floss.

If the gist of this thread is that we're all frustrated with "it's the wrong
license, Gromit!" then could we not start an awareness campaign ourselves,
to right this wrong?  Are we not the common and the creative?

;)

>>> "Do you want to retain a monopoly on commercial exploitation of your
>>> work (for example, so that you alone can sell the work or collect fees
>>> from collecting societies on the work)?"
>>
>> I personally enjoy the direct nature of this one :) Though, can't imagine
>> the liberal thinkers would let you get away with using the "e" word.
>
> Hmmph. I consider myself a "liberal", but I think the most important
> "'e' word" to avoid is "euphemism".

lol, Terry Hancock, liberal yet uncomfortably direct.... :)

..now, what was it we were talking about?

Kevin


> Cheers,
> Terry
>
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