Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Tom Poe <tompoe AT fiai.net>]

drew Roberts wrote:

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> Perhaps we need something like an author recommended publisher seal. The 
> author gets paid when you buy your paper copy from this publisher.
>
>  
>
> > They just won't make the  
> > exploitative monopolistic profits that can be made on non-copyleft
> > books, since there will be a truly "free" market and if they don't
> > provide value to their customer, the customer will by the identical
> > content from a different publisher.
> >    
>
> Exactly, and folling the other side's argument, those other publishers may not 
> pay the author anything. This is why he wants to reserve binding rights to 
> the author who would then get paid for these rights by one publisher. (Is 
> that a fair statement of the argument/thought?)
>
>  
>
> > > The world of book publishing, bookshops, textbooks, libraries and course
> > > ware is still much less copylefted than software (despite the efforst of
> > > wikipedia).
> > >
> > > This could change.
> > >      
> > Agreed! And the wrong way to do it is to disallow readers from using
> > their preferred medium to access the work.
> >
> > ~Evan
> >    
>
> I think anything other than BY or BY-SA is not going to work long term to 
> further the goals I envision when I think of why I am involved in all of 
> this.
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
>  
Authoright is an idea which details Drew's comment:
http://www.culturedialogue.org/authoright.shtml

An excellent argument for Drew's "recommended publisher seal".
Tom

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