Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "BC" == Brad Collins <brad AT studiojungle.net> writes:

    BC> Seems that most if not all of the questions on this list are
    BC> serious and need serious answers.  There are also a lot of
    BC> wonderful projects here that are in legal limbo because of
    BC> these questions.

    BC> What do you think?

I think a few of things.

1) I think that I really don't want to bother with most of the
   questions that are asked on this list. They tend to be on the order
   of, "I want to get as much free stuff as I can from suckers, while
   denying anyone else in the world any rights to that stuff." Fuck
   that. What kind of response do these people want? "You want advice
   on how to keep me from using the content you get from other people?
   Oh, sure, right away! I'm on that! How can I help?"

2) Most such questions are looking for free legal advice on how to
   make a half-free or not-free license. It's kinda in keeping with
   the spirit of the question, actually: I want to get whatever I can
   out of people from the Internet, without giving anything back. So,
   give me free legal advice, too. Fuck that, again.

3) In being totally out of the spirit of Open Content and Creative
   Commons, most of these questions are off-topic for this list. The
   posters should either spend some time thinking about maybe changing
   over to a real Open Content system, and adopt one of the existing
   CC licenses, or they should just go get a lawyer to write them the
   restrictive license they need.

4) Most state bar associations in the United States have free legal
   advice hotlines and legal referral services; checking for "bar
   association" in the phone book usually will pull one up. The
   American Bar Association also has a Web form for finding local
   lawyers and law firms:

           http://www.abanet.org/premartindale.html

   People should use those.

~ESP

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