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  • From: Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution Statement
  • Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:33:12 +0000

James Grimmelmann wrote:
It's unfortunate every time that unpalatable license choices cause dissatisfied authors who want to encourage free redistribution to opt out of the Creative Commons ecosystem entirely.

Absolutely. Think how many will opt out if CC support DRM.

Freedom is about use, not the distribution of broken versions of your work by third parties for your misperceived benefit as an author.

DRM allows pockets of "redistribution" under the control of third parties to be sure, but it removes freedom within those pockets and prevents the very downstream redistribution that you are claiming it encourages. Unless the DRM achieves a monopoly, in which case we are no longer talking about freedom.

If people have the freedom to use dual distribution *as an author* they do not need it. If people do not have the freedom to use dual distribution *as a consumer (sic)* they are not free anyway.

- Rob.




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