Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Monday 28 March 2005 01:13 pm, Greg London wrote:
> drew Roberts said:
> > ... people with big money are ... lobbying for ... laws that put me at
> > grave risk of jail ... for what could be simple innocent mistakes
>
> oooh-kaayy, so what exactly are we talking about here?

Hey Greg,

although I am hot, I am not over the top. (At least I don't think I am.)

Found out last week that (according to my lawyer) a person in my country who 
goes to a store and buys a few dvds or cds, believing them to be the genuine 
article, is subject to a fine of $50,000.00 per disk and I think jail - all 
for simple posession of those disks.

I think this is out of hand, and I am a bit bothered by the situation right 
now. I have the idea in my head right now that I would not want the people 
responsible for pushing for the passage of such laws, to be able to take a 
song I wrote, and paid to have produced and then released under CC BY-SA to 
be able to take this song and include it in an album/cd with a bunch of their 
traditionally copyrighted songs and earn money which will help them fund 
their push for even worse laws.

I may change my mind when I cool down, but given the range of options CC says 
they want to provide, (is this right?) what is inherently with these being 
amoung the options to choose from.

all the best,

drew