[cc-community] BY-SA license in the UK has non-waivered collection society fees?

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Mon Aug 18 02:08:18 EDT 2008


Kevin Phillips (home) wrote:
> "Rights" are complex laws here designed to provide a
> monopolistic framework, as you state.

Yeah, well that's pretty much everywhere, AFAIK. I know that we were
just using the terms that the industry uses, but it's confusing when
talking about public licenses, because while the industry pretty much
_always_ means a "monopoly" when they say "rights", we don't. In fact,
we _usually_ mean "non-exclusive rights".

So if we go around mixing the terminology we can get seriously confused.
It's better to not mince words and just say "monopoly" when that's what
you mean: copyright is founded on the idea that some monopolies are
beneficial. When I say "insist", I really mean that this is the word I
have to use in my head to make sure I understand what we're saying to
each other. :-)

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
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