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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: public domain question
  • Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:36:55 -0800

drew Roberts wrote:
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:14 pm, Greg London wrote:
defaulting everything to share-alike, first of all, will have a lot
of overhead due to the attribution requirements. Second of all,
it prevents proprietary forks and disables the entire system meant
to promote science and arts.

True, I would prefer CC-SA, but I think that is actually no longer an option. IIRC, there is some language to apply to have this result though.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/ still exists and always will. You can use it if you want.

However, you're talking about changing copyright law, a huge task compared to releasing CC-SA 5.0 or whatever. I don't think it makes any sense to constrain your thinking about potential default copyright rules to licenses that may be chosen directly from http://creativecommons.org/license/ .

Also, you should know that changing copyright law is very explicitly outside of the scope of Creative Commons. This is probably not the best forum for discussion of changing copyright defaults.

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Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21




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