[cc-licenses] Maybe Dual Licensing is the solution.

James Grimmelmann james at grimmelmann.net
Wed Dec 6 17:59:41 EST 2006


drew Roberts wrote:
>> For those of you who are willing to allow someone
>> a commercial monopoly on some particular platform,
>> I suggest that you take your content and do like
>> the dual-licensers do. License your work CC-SA
>> and contribute it to some larger community, and
>> then when some proprietary company wants the exclusive
>> rights to use that content on their DRM-Only hardware
>> platform, dual license your content. Give the proprietary
>> vendor a CC-BY license to use your work on their
>> platform, let them have sole right to commercial advantage
>> on that platform, and everyone should be happy.
> 
> They don't even have to give the vendor a BY license, thay can give him the 
> BY-SA with the PD clause that they want.

Or, better yet, give the vendor BY-ND (with a side promise not to 
enforce the anti-DRM clause), and do the parallel distribution yourself.

James



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