Development of Creative Commons licenses

["J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn AT forestfield.org>]

Greg London wrote:
> At issue is the phrase
> "contribute their work to the PD"
> (which is verbatim from the original post, btw)

No, what's at issue is how you altered the context of the quote by (twice now) 
misquoting what I wrote.  You chose not to include any part of my words which 
would indicate that I realize the hypocrisy of Disney's support of the 
copyright term extension act is based in their desire to pursue a neverending 
term of copyright -- they don't want us to be able to build on their work like 
they build on the works in the PD.  Perhaps I could have been more clear by 
stating that I'm aware that the PD is not a copyleft; one can build on the PD 
and make a copyrighted work.  But that copyright should expire (preferably in 
far fewer years than it currently does) and works should regularly enter the 
PD.  The way you chose to respond was unnecessarily harshly worded and you did 
it exactly as Per I. Mathisen pointed out -- attaching my name to an 
misleadingly edited quote so that you could build an argument and then tear it 
down.

I host a community radio show called Digital Citizen on WEFT 90.1 FM every 
other Wednesday from 8-10p.  I do this to bring more people into the fight for 
a more reasonable copyright policy.  I figure that if more people understand 
what has happened and what'It's a shame that you are so angry at someone who 
(unbeknownst to you) is doing good work to help my community better understand 
the issues at hand.  I encourage you to reconsider your tone so that you don't 
miss out on the chance to bring more people to a better understanding of how 
our copyright policy isn't helping our society.