[cc-licenses] Will CC-BY allow DRM?

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Tue Dec 5 00:18:39 EST 2006


Greg London wrote:
> Any word from Creative Commons about changing
> the basic CC-Attribution license so that it allows DRM?
> 
> Since CC-BY allows proprietary forking,
> I see no reason to disallow proprietary DRM.

This was raised earlier. Mia Garlick responded by saying that the DRM
could be used to interfere with fair use of the material, which would
otherwise apply even if the work were taken proprietary.

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com




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