Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Rhett Creighton" <rhett AT creighton.com>]

The advantage of a slightly shorter term license is that it's easy to
convince a copyright holder to use it.  Many copyright holders want to be
protected for life, and they want their family to be taken care of.  It is
clear that life+75 goes beyond that to really only protect big businesses.
I know a lot of people that would adopt such a license.

(FC) is too short to offer people the protection that they want.


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[mailto:cc-licenses-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Greg London
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 9:07 AM
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Shorter Term License

The founders copyright (FC) allows people to license their works
for 14 years (IIRC) as all rights reserved, and after that
the work goes public domain. The license hasn't gained
much popularity, probably because the  FC is basically
still a market economy license. It does not allow sharing
within a gift economy, it does not allow a community to
use it, expand upon it, contribute to it, etc. And so the
work is treated like any other All Rights Reservd work.
Because it doesn't gain any community input during
the 14 years of protection, there is no direct advantage
to using the FC. It is more a political statement, but
generally, the people who think Life+75 years is too long
don't want to JUST make a political statement about
copyright terms, they want their works to get leveraged
immediately in ways that are only possible by ShareAlike
or other licenses.


> I am interested in a license that allows the copyright owner to decrease
> term of a copyright, while maintaining full copyright otherwise.  For
> example, someone may decide that he doesn't need life+75 years and is
> happy
> with life+50 years.  Such a license would allow him to donate 25 years
> copyright ownership (plus any future extensions) to the public.  I believe
> that in addition to practical use, such a license will help raise
> awareness
> of the copyright extension problem.
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