Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

Thanks, Peter.  We'll follow up on these suggestions -- I think they'll  
improve our site . . .

Glenn

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 06:09  PM, Lawrence Lessig wrote:

> Peter, thanks for the email, and the ideas. [Glenn/Neeru: please see  
> below
> and especially where indicated]. Replies below.
>
> On 12/6/02 10:40 PM, "Peter Wayner" <pcw AT flyzone.com> wrote:
>
> > I got an invitation to your party next Monday, but it just won't
> > be possible to attend because I'm on the other side of the country.
> > If you plan an event out here, I would be glad to help. In fact,
> > you definitely should for PR reasons.
> >
> > In any case, here are some thoughts in no particular order:
> >
> > * More bits in the rights vector may make it more complicated, but
> > it could also make the scheme more attractive.
>
> We are completely open to more options down the road. Our idea is to  
> open
> with these, and see what the market demands as we go.
> > * For instance, I could see a band wanting to release a song and
> > give radio stations the right to play it without paying any royalties.
> > Then they would retain the rights to sell other copies. This isn't
> > exactly non-commercial and it's not exactly verbatim. I guess the
> > real problem would be defining the difference between a radio station
> > and a P2P node. This distinction may be so complicated that you don't
> > want to let it mess up your license, but if you could I think you
> > would find many willing bands who would embrace it.
>
> This is a nice idea for us to explore.
>
> > * I was planning on releasing _Free for All_ in electronic form with
> > the right to make free electronic copies but no right to make printed
> > ones. (still not public: http://www.wayner.org/books/ffa/index.php)
> > This was just to prevent someone from issuing a paperback edition
> > without my say so. Now I'm weighing using your non-commercial license
> > because it may be close enough to what I want. I'll mull it over.
> > Again, it would be cool if you could have bits that controlled the
> > format of the copies, but this may create other problems.
>
> That would be fantastic, and we'd be happy to make that part of the
> announcement. Adding a format vector to the rights would require some  
> work
> which we can't do at the moment. But it is something to consider for  
> the
> future.
>
> > * Has anyone created the XML Schema/DTD for the DRM in RDF? I checked
> > the link, but it just went to a general page about some XML formats.
> > If I missed it, you might try to put in a more explicit link.
>
> Absolutely, that's done (though we don't like to call it DRM, better  
> DRE:
> expression, not management). Glenn/Neeru: If this isn't obvious, we  
> need to
> make it clearer.
>
> > * You might want to include a question in the FAQ about changing
> > the license over time. Several open source projects change the  
> > license.
> > You've probably addressed this somewhere, but it's one of my first
> > questions. Could I, for instance, revoke one of your licenses and
> > go back to strict copyright? (This has deep implications about  
> > censorship
> > too because in the past it was hard to "unpublish" something. Now
> > you just need to delete it from the website, google and the wayback
> > machine.)
>
> Glenn/Neeru: Great point.
>
> > Thanks again for all of your hard work on this important topic.
> >
> > -Peter
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> >
>
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