[cc-community] The case for a stricter (or more honest) CC licence than BY-NC-ND

Dr. Peter Troxler (Waag Society) peter at waag.org
Sun Jan 11 13:59:38 EST 2009


On 11 jan 2009, at 19:40, Dr. Peter Troxler (Waag Society) wrote:

> hence I would still conclude that his use of the CC branding could be
> seen as misleading.


and ad the same time I'm thinking -- poor guy, he comes with his best  
intentions, writing an amazing 1600 page textbook on physics (which  
I'm unable to download because his captcha thingy is playing up in my  
Safari browser), setting it live for free, providing translations to  
french and spanish, attracting funding to do this whole thing

... and then out of paranoia somebody could take this and get rich  
quick gets "tangled in legal" (hmmm ... I might want to (c) that as a  
title for my next podcast, apologies for the aside)

he wants his stuff to be free for the good of humanity and probably  
was told by his environment that there are only bad guys out there  
waiting to turn his free 1600-page physics text book into a goldmine  
for themselves.

This is actually a call to arms to the entire CC community (not  
really: we are already working on it):  let CC be more than a set of  
licenses "with a twist" -- give people, users, "licensors",  
entrepreneurs the vision how they will get rich (well no, but make  
some progress) by putting out material under CC, give them the vision  
that they can do stuff with their content themselves, putting it into  
a form they can sell which nobody else can copy -- and get rid of that  
"equals theft" mentality that still riddles CC fora, faq's and the like

best wishes for 2009 and forgive me becoming emotional

/ PEter





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