Development of Creative Commons licenses

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Hello, I'm new to the list and am intriqued by Creative Commons but I'm 
concerned about its usefulness and direction.  My main
concern about copyright is that I don't believe that it is a very efficient 
business model.  A lot of wasted resources go into
enforcement (lawyers, license, tracking down violators, etc.)  My concern 
about CC is that it is built on the same framework as
copyright.  That basically, the original producer has all rights and is 
choosing to relinquish some of them in some standardized
form via the CC license.  The problem still remains in the rights you are 
"reserving" namely the cost of enforcing those rights. In
reading through other postings, I've seen concern already over legal minutae 
in application of the CC licenses.  Here are several
variations on commercial use that may or may not be what the producer intends 
to allow or disallow under the CC licenses:

1)  outright sale
2)  no direct sale but sale of derivative works
3)  advertiser supported free distribution
4)  what about a file sharing system where central server service provider 
collects money but doesn't actually host the content,
thats done by its members who don't directly benefit
5)  what if an ISP allows file sharing among its subscribers for free (but 
obviously charges a monthly fee for internet service)
6)  what if the users of a file sharing system use an upload / download 
credit system, you upload one song to me then you can
download one song from me
7)  what if the up/down credits are resellable on the open market  "I have 50 
credits for $20 I'll sell you"

I'm just concerned that as we see demand for 'controlling' these variations 
(ala Share Alike, Sampling, Translations, etc) in the
licenses issued by CC that it will just spiral out of control with dozens of 
different licenses and be no more useful than current
All Rights Reserved.


Jason Cronk
EOE Inc
support AT goldbytes.com