public domain question

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Feb 1 17:36:55 EST 2005


drew Roberts wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:14 pm, Greg London wrote:
>>defaulting everything to share-alike, first of all, will have a lot
>>of overhead due to the attribution requirements. Second of all,
>>it prevents proprietary forks and disables the entire system meant
>>to promote science and arts.
> 
> True, I would prefer CC-SA, but I think that is actually no longer an option. 
> IIRC, there is some language to apply to have this result though.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/ still exists and always 
will.  You can use it if you want.

However, you're talking about changing copyright law, a huge task 
compared to releasing CC-SA 5.0 or whatever.  I don't think it makes any 
sense to constrain your thinking about potential default copyright rules 
to licenses that may be chosen directly from 
http://creativecommons.org/license/ .

Also, you should know that changing copyright law is very explicitly 
outside of the scope of Creative Commons.  This is probably not the best 
  forum for discussion of changing copyright defaults.

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   Mike Linksvayer
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