[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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