Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller <sloyment AT gmx.net>]

On Montag 15 Dezember 2003 18:25, Sunir Shah wrote:
> Thomas writes,
>
> >> Copyrights are about morality, not legality.
> >
> > No. They are about money.
>
> Money is about morality too, before we forget.

In capitalism, money regulates the economy. Therefore it can be 
considered useful to some extent. OTOH, money divides the 
society into rich and poor, into those who have it and those who 
owe it, causing unequality. Unequality is clearly immoral.

I have never heard about someone considering money as something 
about morality, yet.

> Copyright for online communities *is* about morality,
> not about cash.

You can use it for whatever you want. Sometimes tanks are used to 
build roads, but although this is sometimes done, their primary 
purpose is still to kill and destroy.

> It's there to allow people the legal
> room to talk freely.

I don't need such room to talk freely. 

> > BTW: IMHO, you can't get a compilation copyright on a wiki,
> > [blahblah]

> anonymous copyrights default to the publisher until they can 
> be adequately proven otherwise.

Interesting. I didn't know that. 

And I think I'm pretty sure there is no such rule in the German 
Authors Rights Law.

cu,
Thomas }:o{#
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