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  • From: "Branko Collin" <collin AT xs4all.nl>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: distribution of licenses
  • Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:26:53 +0100

On 1 Mar 2005, at 9:49, Rob Myers wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 01, 2005, at 05:43AM, Greg London
> <email AT greglondon.com> wrote:
>
> >I'm a little concerned that the biggest slice of the pie
> >is an oxymoron of a license: CC-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
[...]
> >Or is it the
> >reflection of a lack of understanding of the licenses by users?
> >Do people get caught up in the idea of "Sharing" their
> >content and so they add ShareAlike even when it doesn't
> >make sense when you've got NonCommercial in front of it?
>
> There are three possibilities that I can think of:
> 1. People are more into Adbusters-type anticapitalism than previously
> thought. 2. People are just choosing the individual license options
> that appeal to them out of context. 3. People want to allow and
> participate in a folk culture, a noncommercial/fan/public culture of
> the sort that Free Culture / No Logo discuss being
> commercialised/privatised.
>
> I'd like to believe 3. People want to share their work but not get
> ripped off (or rip anyone off). Which license does that sound like?
> :-) This is a valid social and personal position that cannot be
> conceptualised by a straight copyleft/proprietary split. It may not
> best be captured by CC-BY-NC-SA, but that's another matter...

You're probably right. If you just look at the questions asked on
this mailing list, you see a lot of concern that some nebulous entity
is going to do unspeakable things to one's work; how to protect
oneself against that? The idea that it is OK to let go doesn't seem
to enter a lot of people's minds.

IMO it is already great that a lot of authors are using a license,
and a CC lincense at that. It provides ease of mind to the end-users.

--
branko collin
collin AT xs4all.nl




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