[cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution Statement
James Grimmelmann
james at grimmelmann.net
Wed Dec 6 16:59:48 EST 2006
Terry Hancock wrote:
> James Grimmelmann wrote:
>> With parallel distribution, DRM doesn't create incompatible pools. The
>> unencumbered version always allows individuals to take the work back to
>> the lingua franca of no DRM.
>
> If you really believe this, then you haven't been paying as much
> attention to this discussion as you claim to have.
>
> It has been clearly demonstrated that such pools are created by a TPM+PD
> clause: one for each DRM-locked platform.
You are using "pool" in a different sense than I was. I meant that
under an anti-DRM clause with parallel distribution codicil, one can
always export any distributed CC-licensed work to an unlocked platform.
In that sense, every such work under the same license is in the same
pool; they can be combined together in new derivative works on the
unlocked platform.
James
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