[cc-licenses] Lawsuit over Virgin Mobile's and Ethical Use

paola.dimaio at gmail.com paola.dimaio at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 08:24:16 EDT 2007


Drew
>
> The law already protects your work from unlawful exploitation. Otherwise, it
> would be lawful exploitation. You seem to be wanting redundancy, not only
> should it be unlawful due to the laws already on the books, it also should be
> unlawful due to copyright laws.

 - I dont want to 'sue' someone from using my work in a way that I do
not approve of
I have an obligation, as a creator, to make sure that any conditions
and warrants
about usage of my work are explicitly expressed upfront - that would
make law enforcement much easier.
As I want to grant 'upfront' permission in general, I also want to
make explicit 'upfront'
what invalidates the permission given upfront above

>
> Again I ask, if someone is going to break those more serious laws in
> exploiting your work, why would a copyright law prevent them?

I cannot sue someone for using my content illegally when I license it
under terms that
allow them to do so 'freely'. Someone selling weapons on the internet,
may well be doing so 'legally'. I do not want them to use any of my cc
work under no condition whatsoever

>
> I think perhaps your concern is rather over your "perceived" support of these
> uses.

not really - I simply dont want my work used for certain purposes,
while i want to make it free and acessible for everything else


I think that is a real danger that those of us concerned with Free
> works are doing to face until the world gets used to Free works and people
> grow in their understanding of Free licensing works.

yes I agree- I also know that free licensing is not the best choice for all work

>

> Which licenses do you want this for? BY-NC? BY-NC-ND? BY? BY-SA? BY-NC-SA?
I think every license would benefit from having a +E flavour



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> > pdm
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