[cc-community] Extending CC into physical space

mp m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk
Fri Feb 27 08:04:11 EST 2009


Slightly tangential, but nevertheless interesting and related:

Jack Kloppenburg, "Seeds, sovereignty, and the Vía Campesina: Plants,
property, and the promise of open source biology", paper prepared for
the Workshop on Food Sovereignty: Theory, Praxis and Power, 17-18
November 2008, St. Andrews College, University of Saskatchewan, draft
dated 22 November 2008, 34 pp.
http://www.drs.wisc.edu/kloppenburg/_publications/2008%20Se
eds%20and%20Sovereignty.pdf

martin
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Rob Myers wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Where it all goes pear shaped is that people will want to make
>> modifications - to improve it, to produce with different matters, or
>> different sizes etc.
>>
>> The CC attribution, sharealike license extends to the artwork but doesn't
>> cover the results. Thus someone could improve the kit and providing they
>> don't share the artwork itself take their improvements effectively out of
>> the CC space.
> 
> I suggest using the GNU General Public License rather than BY-SA.
> 
> Declare the design to be the "source", and the item made from it to be
> the "binary".
> 
> So if I take a design, modify it, and make it, anyone I give (or sell)
> the made version to can request the modified design from me under the
> terms of the GPL. That wouldn't be true with BY-SA, which doesn't
> require disclosure of modified preparatory work.
> 
> Assuming, as other people have pointed out, copyright holds here.
> 
> - Rob.
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