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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: License that allows private copying?
  • Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:08:02 -0500 (EST)


Scott Johnston said:
> Greg London said:
>> Scott Johnston said:
>> > I have a peer-to-peer content development tool that I want to
>> > sell over the internet.
>>
>> Then use a CC-FreeAdvertising license, like CC-NonCommercial-NoDerivs,
>> and be done with it. If you want to sell something, having a
>> LimitedQuantityDistribution license is a waste of time.

> Using a license like CC-NonCommercial-NoDerivs would allow someone to
> defeat my efforts to make some money by simply posting a copy they
> acquired on the net.

Ah, I see. So, with a LOW-QUANTITY-DISTRIBUTION restriction,
you are hoping that word gets out about this
great program of yours, without this great program of
yours actually getting out on the internet.
thereby forcing people to come to you to purchase it.

You know, I posted a separate message a little while
ago about CC-FreeAdvertising. I didn't think anyone
would be quite so BOLD as to ask for it, but that's
effectively what you want.

You want to grant people the right to advertise your
program JUST ENOUGH to get the word out,
but RESTRICT it enough that they have to come to you
for an actual copy and then pay you to boot.

--
Draft the Gift Domain:
Put Free/Libre/Open/Public licensing
concepts directly into Copyright Law.
http://www.greglondon.com/dtgd/html/draftingthegiftdomain.html





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