Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "SJ" == Scott Johnston <johnston AT vectaport.com> writes:

    SJ> For this particular copyrighted work I would start with an
    SJ> Attribution-Non-Commercial license.  Then I would mix in a
    SJ> Private clause if one existed.  My test for whether the
    SJ> copying was private would be whether I could get a copy (for
    SJ> free or otherwise) by finding it on google.

"You may distribute this file however you want, as long as Licensor
can't find it on Google?"  That seems pretty arbitrary to me; I mean,
I could just get around that with a robots.txt file.

Again, I want to ask: what's the point? If I give the work to 10
people, and those 10 people each give it to 10 people, and so on, it
gets out to millions of people the same as if I had made it publicly
available to those millions of people directly.

It seems like it just puts a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt on
the licensee's plate without providing any tangible benefit to the
licensor. I guess the best you get is disallowing people with no
friends to get the work, which if you hate lonely people might be some
kind of benefit.

~ESP

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