[cc-community] Being called a thief for using CC
Miguel Angel Barrera
mabarrera70 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 13:06:28 EST 2008
> Has he explained this in detail? He really shouldn't be able to do that
> under NC-SA. Please can you forward (a translation of) his exact claim
> of how this "hole" works to this list? If he's wrong hopefully people
> will be able to say why, if he's right then CC really need to know.
This is what he once said on a popular Spanish blog:
~~
I am VERY upset because I've found an ethic "hole" in the license. It
unethically allows copying an entire CC-licensed web site. It is
legal, but not ethic. Someone has done it to me and I am royally
pissed.
~~
Note that in that discussion, he admits what we've done is legal,
though that hasn't stopped him from declaring it "illegal" under other
contexts where people doesn't know better. Just to be clear, we
haven't copied the entire web site, only the translations. Of course
when he says "it unethically allows..." that's a personal opinion of
what he considers unethical, as if I copied the entire "Free Culture"
book and not just one chapter, and post it in my site (respecting all
aspects of the license) should be considered unethical. Isn't the
whole point of CC to avoid these kind of conflicts?
> You can copy the unaltered work under all the main CC licences, that
> isn't a special permission that ND adds. Is he assuming that SA is the
> opposite of ND? This isn't the case.
Rob, bottom line is that he's just pissed someone copied his work and
released it at a different site.
Thanks,
M.Angel
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