[cc-community] The case for a stricter (or more honest) CC licence than BY-NC-ND
Mario Pena
mpena at safecreative.org
Mon Jan 12 05:45:33 EST 2009
Hi,
Maybe something more people need to be aware today is that a new paradigm of
creators is beeing consolidated. Maybe the usual way to create entertainment
and professional people doing that as a full time job will move towards more
amateur high quality contents beeing freely available to society.
This non professional people have other works but in their free time create
good enought contents for many other people. In this sense the focus must
move from the limits and barriers to make contents available to a "capture
people's atention" for that's what we don't have much of.
I think (c) will still have it's place, but must adapt to this growing
reallity.
Bests
Mario
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Dr. Peter Troxler (Waag Society) <
peter at waag.org> wrote:
> Drew:
>
> my reasoning boils down to what Rob said earlier:
> > it's generally better to concentrate on making money oneself rather
> > than concentrating on making sure nobody else makes money.
>
> or in a more elaborate way:
>
> Creative Commons licenses are great because they achieve two things:
> -- they put the author/creator in control of her/his rights
> -- they reduce transaction costs in licensing there rights to others
>
> CC have chosen a modular approach to this which is embedded in current
> copyright legislation and rights management practice
> - attribution is now mandatory
> - the creator can choose for SA if s/he believes in viral licensing
> - the creator can choose for NC which seems to be reasonable in some
> circumstances (eg. the case of collecting societies)
> - the creator can choose for ND
> (and of course the creator can choose for traditional (c) and rights
> management, and should do so if s/he believes in the efficiency of
> national collecting societies)
>
> unlike traditional (c) people who argue along the lines that
> "copyright is eternal" and copying material equals theft (which is an
> argument I don't really understand since if somebody makes a copy I'm
> still there with my original/copy), CC licensing lowers the hurdle to
> copy stuff and makes the legal dealings so much easier.
>
> putting any CC license on a work, in a sense, conveys the message of
> "copying is OK". putting a (c) "All rights reserved" on a work
> conveys the message of "copying is NOT OK".
>
> but this is only the legal basis -- once we've got that out of the way
> (and I repeat: through standard licenses CC makes it easy and
> efficient to get the legalities out of the way, in most cases) -- then
> we can think about how to make money. And IMHO that's the much more
> important part of creativity.
>
> Some people make money by performing (which might be hard for a
> writer), others make money by selling hardcopies, other make moneys by
> working for an academic institution, others make money by attracting
> funding or sponsorship, and others decide not to make money at all.
> CC have started to collect examples of how people (still) make money
> if they offer (some of) their content to copy for free (see
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Casestudies)
> , and I bet there is more of this stuff becoming available this year.
>
> the clue in all these cases is not to make something that others
> cannot "legally" copy, but something that other cannot copy because
> they don't have the skills, knowledge, position, network, etc. to
> create that added value their customers are willing and able to pay for.
>
> / Peter Troxler
> / Public Project Co-Lead
> / Creative Commons Netherlands
> / www.creativecommons.nl
> /
> / c/o Waag Society :: Nieuwmarkt 4 :: 1012 CR Amsterdam :: The
> Netherlands :: +31 20 557 9898
>
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