Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Steven Ericsson-Zenith" <steven AT semeiosis.com>]

Richard Stallman wrote ..
>     Well, /one/ thing that copyright and patents have in common is that
>     people sometimes use them to keep us from sharing software with our
>     neighbours.
> 
> With all due respect, I think that statement is mistaken.  Stopping
> people from sharing software is generally done with copyrights and
> with contracts, not with patents.  Patents lend themselves, rather, to
> suppressing the distribution and use of a program against the will
> of its developer.

I agree with this point of view and recast it to observe that this is a 
question of property law and those benefits yielded by employees to their 
employer - typically large multinationals.  

There seems to be a disproportionate trade between the paltry awards given to 
employees and the value of their intellectual effort - in fact, it makes 
employment an act of indentured servitude. 

Sincerely,
Steven