[cc-licenses] Dumping CC-BY-NC-ND and Narrowing CC-BY-ND

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Thu Apr 27 05:16:18 EDT 2006


Ŭalabio‽ skrev:
 >
 > 	I a perfect world, everything would be public domain.
 > Unfortunately, in the real world, creators have to eat.

In *your* perfect world that may be the case, the majority of CC 
contributors seem to have other priorities. "ND" licenses are the most 
popular ones among the creators AFAIK. Copyright as such is not a bad 
thing - it's quite useful for society. The interests of the creators, 
investors and society needs, however, to be balanced and that is not the 
case today. CC provides a way for creators to re-balance the scale and 
offer their creations to the public under more liberal terms than those 
of current copyright law. The majority of the users of the CC licenses 
probably care very little about the "commons" - they have far more 
egoistic motives.

 >
 > 	I see the purpose of CreativeCommons.Org as creating licenses
 > which move us toward the aforementioned world.  Is not our purpose
 > to create a creative commons upon which one ca at least
 > noncommercially, build?

Your agenda is that of a small minority, as I wrote above: most users of 
CC licenses seems to have a far more egoistic agenda.

 >
 > 	Does anyone understand the point I try to make?  Does anyone
 > believe that a constitution which all laws (licenses) mast obey is a
 > bad idea?  Please explain why.
 >

There's nothing inheritably wrong with either the NC or the ND option. 
Creators find them useful. They help re-balance the current copyright 
situation a bit - maybe not so much as you would wish, but that is 
(really) a minor point in the greater scheme of things.

The success of CC is, IMO, largely dependant upon CC giving the creators 
a large set of options. If CC were to narrow down the available options 
many creators would opt out. It's a matter of overall strategy. You can 
cater too many, offering options that suits many different people or you 
can choose a more "fundamentalistic" approach. The later won't be very 
successful - IMHO.








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