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  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Music Sharing License Commentary
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:04:19 -0500

I realize I'm becoming something of a cc-licenses crackpot,
but I still have a few comments.

0) I think it's a bad idea for Creative Commons to be a license
factory. Information about how the _current_ licenses work is still
pretty shaky:


https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2003-November/000189.html

...and there are a lot of questions people have that go
unanswered, like how the licenses work together.

Wouldn't it be better to stabilize, popularize, and iteratively
improve the current licenses, rather than popping out new licenses
every few months?

I realize that CC is under pressure from folks who say, "I want a
Creative Commons license except it does X or Y instead of Z or W",
but maybe it'd be better to concentrate on doing a few things well
before spreading out all over the place.

1) Branding issues.

It's hard enough already for people to grok that there's more than
one CC license. That there's 11... no, plus the Public Domain
dedication... and then the Sampling... don't forget Founders'
Copyright... plus these iCommons things... and what's this CC-GPL
about?... oh and now the Music Sharing license.

Dilute your brand and you have no brand. Marketing 101.

2) Bad names. The Sampling license is not the license that allows you
to sample music; it's the license that _just_ allows you to sample
music. The Music Sharing License is not the license that allows you
to share music; it's the license that _just_ allows you to share
music.

3) What happened to the public review period? I thought that was how
new licenses happened:

http://creativecommons.org/discuss

~ESP

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Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>
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