Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

Branko Collin said:
> On 14 Nov 2004, at 13:22, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
>
>> Copyright protects works, not ideas.
>
> As a Project Gutenberg volunteer and webmaster of a site that deals
> with abandoned games, I must strongly object to this reading of
> copyright. Copyright does not protect works, it destroys them.
> Copyright protects the interests of authors (well, at least in
> theory). Works get the raw end of the deal with copyright.

Don't be so naive as to believe every bit of anti-copyright propaganda
you've ever read. The idea of intellectual property has acquired some
severe flaws of late, but the basic concept is sound and can even be
fair.