[cc-community] anarchist take on copyright and CC

Lloyd cc at phizz.demon.co.uk
Fri Mar 28 17:04:26 EDT 2008


Matthew J. Agnello wrote:
>> Matthew J. Agnello wrote:
>>> The joke is an anarchist taking the paper to court over commercial use, 
>>> and the company pointing to the latter part of the license and saying, 
>>> "We don't respect the author's IP claim, so this is free for us."
>>>
>>
>> That isn't what the thing says. read more carefully.
> 
> Sorry, I was unclear. Let me clarify. (Although this is probably getting 
> too deep into the joke.)
> 
> drew Roberts wrote:
>> Both you and Terry made this point.
>>
>> But actually, it does apply to you as much as to someone who cares 
>> about it 
>> and breaks it anyway, on purpose or out of ignorance. It applies to 
>> you when 
>> you get caught up. At that point, it hardly matters what you believe 
>> on the 
>> matter.
> 
> The paper's copyright claims that for those who respect copyright, use 
> CC-NY-NC-SA, and for those who don't, copy as you like. 

You are adding words that aren't there. Read more carefully. I'll make 
it simple.

[
To those with respect for the concept of intellectual property, this 
document is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share 
Alike 3.0 United States License. Everyone else, of course, is free.
]

Nowhere does it say you are free to "copy as you like".




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