Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Trevor Hill" <trevor AT glome.org>]

I think there is a lot of potential for empowering the creator in creative commons licenses, but much of it is yet unrealized.  I wonder how you would feel about some of the following possibilities as optional new features…

 

Restricting printing only – or restricting to one mode of use to the exclusion of others.  You could have sound, text, etc.

Restricting only public displays of a certain size.

Restricting the number of copies the user may make.

 

Restricting the countries or geographical areas in which you offer the license.  Something could be offered freely in Africa, but not in the U.S., for example.

 

 

Also, I believe it would be helpful to develop a system for paid licenses as well, since information about them could be gleaned from XML and displayed to a user browsing for useful content – this would help to put those who want compensation of some sort on equal footing under your licensing schemes; otherwise, it does seem like you are clearly favoring free distribution.  

 

Trevor Hill

http://www.glome.org/