[cc-community] Identi.ca - my new Creative-Commons-enabled microblogging service
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Jul 7 16:53:45 EDT 2008
On Monday 07 July 2008 14:57:31 Rob Myers wrote:
> Matthew J. Agnello wrote:
> > For me, BY is fine; I really just want more data portability
> > out of identi.ca <http://identi.ca>, since I currently use Twitter. So,
> > keep up the great
> > work, Evan!
>
> I am a very strong proponent of copyleft but I think identica's use of
> BY is a perfect fit for:
>
> a) Data portability in a federated network of microblogging sites.
>
> b) Quoting and replying to other people's comments.
One of the problems I see is actually quoting something from outside of the
system.
So, would it be possible to adopt a convention that anything in quotes in not
under the BY license? With a possible addition of a license code in brackets
after the quote? (after the first quote?)
Another is quoting myself from a work intended as a whole to be under a
different license.
This concern could just be due to my ignorance so here is a hypothetical:
I have a song lyric, three verses and a chorus. License; cc BY-SA.
Over time, I end up quoting the whole thing but only ever one line at a time.
So single lines are BY but the song is BY-SA. Can someone take all of the BY
licensed lines and treat the song as BY? Or is the ordering of the lines
covered by the BY-SA even though all the lines on their own are now BY? (Is
this clear?)
>
> So I'd go so far as recommending that standard copyright be dropped
> rather than more licences be added, but I can see the pragmatic reasons
> for keeping it.
>
> identi.ca is absolutely brilliant.
>
> - Rob.
>
> PS -Danny o'brien mentioned identica as an example in his talk about
> freeing the cloud at OpenTech in London last Saturday.
all the best,
drew
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