Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Takemoto" <tim AT yamaguchi-u.ac.jp>]

As we have seen with open source, when the right licence exists
there is a lot of sharing, and that means a lot of benefit for a lot of 
people. To succeed a licence has to reward those that take part 
to the right extent. 

I don't think that the licences have got there yet when it comes to
the sharing of written words. If they had, then I think that we would
see a lot more books with CC type licences. 

I think that a similar licence, perhaps an "only for streaming" licence,
or "only for computers" licence, might provide an incentive for 
more musicians to allow their music to become available for free. 

Tim



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bjorn Wijers" <mailings AT bdisfunctional.net>
To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" 
<cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: Proposal for a new kind of CC license - "preservation license"


> I have been lurking most of the time. However on the topic of new 
> licenses I hold a firm opinion:
> 
> less is more.
> 
> Stop adding new licenses. Actually in an ideal world we wouldn't need 
> licenses altogether, the less we (need to) use them the better...
> 
> Most people have enough troubles in understanding the CC licenses 
> concept and adding more licenses is not helping. I'm saying this based 
> on my own experiences with Simuze (http://www.simuze.nl) a Dutch music 
> community based on sharing of music under CC licenses. Most of the 
> people I've met had a lot of problems understanding the 'subtle' 
> differences between licenses. Especially The sampling and developing 
> nations license do in my view more harm than good.
> 
> grtz
> BjornW
> 
> 
> 
> Mathias Klang wrote:
> > I agree with Marcus that we should be wary of new licenses. CC has been 
> > built upon its simplicity and universal appeal. The creation of new 
> > licenses (and also the rapid development of new versions) should be kept 
> > to a minumum. CC will not grow stronger by applying new licenses but 
> > through the application of its fundamental ideology.
> > 
> > The latter should (as Marcus expresses) be explored and elaborated.
> > 
> > Mathias
> > 
> > Marcus Bornfreund wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi all. Here's another thought, one expressed to me in-person recently 
> >> by Richard Stallman and supported by several members of our own 
> >> community: */No new licences/*.
> >>
> >> Instead, I suggest that we stop and consider the mandate of Creative 
> >> Commons. What do we want people to infer when they see the CC in a 
> >> circle on a creative work? What is CC's ideology? Is it to promote 
> >> collaboration and sharing whenever possible, or in a particular 
> >> fashion? If the former, than the more licences the merrier so long as 
> >> they do not logically conflict; if the latter, perhaps less is more...
> >>
> >> /Marcus
> >>
> >>
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