[cc-licenses] parallel distribution, closed technologies and freedom

Alek Tarkowski alek.tarkowski at creativecommons.pl
Mon Dec 4 05:56:05 EST 2006


Dear Benjamin,

I don't think it makes sense to ask people for comments on your wiki if 
you don't plan to respond to them and prefer to talk on the mailing 
list. So I'm reposting my comment here:

I have a rather "theoretical" comment regarding your position paper. You 
write:

"PlayStations <http://wiki.mako.cc/PlayStations>, like cell phones and 
many other consumer technologies, are inherently and intentionally [...] 
less empowering than other technologies. It is silly to consider banning 
the distribution of CC-licensed works to devices that are unable to take 
full advantage of the freedoms to modify and redistribute under CC 
licenses"

I find this confusing in light of your freedom-based critique of some of 
the CC licenses. It seems that while you are against legal limitations 
to user freedom, you support technical limitiations to user freedom. 
Shouldn't a freedom-based position be critical also of technologies that 
make content un-free? We can hypothetically imagine a legal document, 
heck even a moral principle that is against the use of technologies such 
as cell phones when a fully empowering technology like the internet 
exists? - the way you find use of licenses with the ND argument, for 
instance, unsatisfactory since pure BY / BY-SA licenses exist...

best,

Alek Tarkowski



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