[cc-community] No Hard Copy Distribution Condition (Let's discuss)
Greg London
email at greglondon.com
Thu Feb 14 09:29:03 EST 2008
>> CC is fine for blogs, posts, "easy" expression,
>> but any work deemed as serious stuff ...
>> CC is not recommended.
I'm having a problem reading this because it
sounds so much like the discussions I hear
when "serious" "literature" types want to look
down their noses at science fiction and the
sort of stuff I write.
Generally speaking, I've found people who think
of their works as "serious" as the sorts of folks
who think that the world should all view their
works a certain way (good) and all other works
another way (bad).
These same people tend to have rather monopolistic
views of how their works are presented, how the
characters behave, how the words form a sentence,
and so on. They almost universally frown upon stuff
like fan fiction and other people creating their
own derivatives of their "serious" work, because
they generally don't view the derivatives as quite
serious enough.
Which is to say, if you *seriously* think that your
writing is that serious, then you aren't interested
in what your audience can do for you. CC licenses
really are about what your audience can do for you
if you're willing to let them.
Give your audience non commercial rights and they'll
do fan fiction for you. Give them ShareAlike rights
and they'll adapt and improve it for you.
All of which is quite simply anything but "serious".
If you take your writing that seriously that you can't
release any rights to your audience and give them the
power to do something for themselves that might also
benefit the work, then you're not talking about anything
that has anything to do with a Creative Commons license.
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