[cc-licenses] (no subject)
Nic Suzor
nic at suzor.com
Mon Dec 4 22:38:50 EST 2006
On 12/5/06, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
> There is no way a CC-SA movie will ever be
> released in the current environment of the
> movie industry.
The day that a CC licensed movie approaches a deal to get a wide
release, I don't want a flat-out prohibition on DRM stopping that.
Cafune, Elephants Dream, Swarm of Angels, Sanctuary, to name but a
few; there's a growing number of high quality CC-licensed films being
produced.
> There is no difference between the Lucas scenario
> above and DRM-Dave's hardware, other than semantics.
The scenario you have constructed is a straw man. In your scenario, If
someone (Lucas) says that they'll make the all modifications
(derivative works) available under BY-SA, then that's complying with
the licence. The community benefits from the work done by others to
BY-SA-licensed works.
If Lucas took CC-licensed works, otherwise complied with the licence
by releasing the movie (or his modifications of the cc-licensed works,
if they are separable from the rest of the movie and the entire movie
is not required to be released under the licence), and he needed to
apply a TPM in order to get it distributed, fine.
(note - I don't like this strict interpretation - I think that
significant use of a BY-SA-licensed work as part of a movie would
require the entire movie to be released under BY-SA, not just
modifications to that work).
> You want to vote that with your wallet, go for it.
> Put a dual license on your content.
[...]
> Just keep your hands the COMMUNITY's wallet
> while you're doing it.
If it is the case that the 'community' really doesn't want to allow
DRM like this, then I can accept that. I will begin to dual license or
re-license my works.
The reason I'm still arguing this point is because I haven't seen a
consensus. We saw an informal 'hum vote' at the iCommons summit in
Brazil. I was just trying to have my point of view noted and counted.
I would prefer not to have to dual-licence my works. I am afraid of
the growing problems associated with licence proliferation and
incompatibility. I definitely don't want to have to roll my own
licence. If I have to, I will, but I thought that the discussion on
this list could be a constructive way of analysing the arguments and
coming to a sensible decision.
Again, I'm not trying to speak for anyone else. I just wanted to
participate in the drafting review process.
kind regards,
nic.
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