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Subject: Development of Creative Commons licenses

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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: CC license & commercial works.
  • Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:57:58 +0000

On 14 Nov 2004, at 10:28, Daniel Carrera wrote:

We are looking at how to modify this to include the CC. One idea is to
say "if you buy this book I'll give it to you under this CC license".

One problem is that once you give someone the work under a CC license, it's "out of the bottle". That is, they can give it to as many people as they like under the terms of the CC license.

I recommend you look at Cory Doctorow's experience releasing work under a CC license. It seems to work best when you look on CC'ing the work as a form of advertising or a way of building community and interest around the work.

http://www.craphound.com/down/archives/2004_02.php#000117
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57152,00.html

- Rob.





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