Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Sunday 14 November 2004 11:37 am, Greg London wrote:
> 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.
>
Would you or others who promote the concept of "intellectual property" accept 
the governments right to levy an intellectual property tax on your property?

drew