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[Diane Peters <diane AT creativecommons.org>]

Hi Maarten,

A quick note from over here.  Since the days of Mike L. who is an advocate of such positioning and with whom many of us wholeheartedly agree, we've tried to incorporate more consistently the notion of "copyright restrictions" or variations thereon in our main FAQs, our blog posts, our webpages, and other messaging.  At times it can be hard to incorporate, and our learning has been it cannot always be achieved depending on audience or particular usage.  But we do try to be intentional with each usage, and use as a default "otherwise restricted by ©" or similar when possible.  This speaks to the point of view of the reuser -- the public -- often considered secondary instead of primary where copyright is concerned.  

Eager to watch how this thread develops to see if there are ways we can improve or coordinate on messaging. 

Diane

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl> wrote:

Hi all,

I’ve been thinking about the rhetorics that we’ve been using at Creative Commons Netherlands. 

I wanted to augment a Dutch text on the public domain starting from the idea of “Public Domain is the rule, copyright is the exception” from the public domain manifesto. I noticed that I got stuck in trying to explain that copyright protects its creators. Protects has such a positive connotation that I find it difficult to explain why public domain has so many merits. Instead of saying ‘copyright protects’ I thought about changing the explanation of copyright to ‘copyright limits use’. 

I was wondering if you have thoughts about this kind of rhetorics. Do you in your language/country/work say that copyright protects creators or that it limits use? Why did you adopt one form over the other and what kind of reactions did you get from using that kind of rhetorics?

Thanks,

Maarten Zeinstra 

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