Development of Creative Commons licenses

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Scott Johnston said:
> Has there been discussion at Creative Commons (or elsewhere) of
> developing a license that makes a distinction between public and
> private copying?  Something that extends the fair-use privileges
> protected by the Sony video tape decision to allow a person to
> privately distribute copies to their associates, but forbids them from
> making it available to the public?

I dont think so.

I question the value of such a license simply because the
only group I know of that claims I can't make private
copies of works that I own was someone from the RIAA.
A couple years ago, someone from the record industry
said that people should not convert their CD's into MP3's,
and instead should buy an all new copy of the same song
to play in each location, for instance, your car stereo,
your bedroom, your living room, and your personal MP3
player.