Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Stefan Tiedje <Stefan-Tiedje AT addcom.de>]

Jonathon Blake wrote:
> > either BY-SA-FCE (Fair Compensation Encouraged)
> > or BY-SA-NC-FCR (Fair Compensation Required)
>
>
> Either of those options will be thornier than a plain "NC" will be.
>
> One practical example.  Walmart's unofficial pricing policy for its
> vendors is: "fair compensation is less than it costs you to produce
> the product."

There are two points behind the idea of fair compensation:
One of course is fairness, the believe that a good deal is always 
win-win. The above definition is clearly a win-loose, Walmart would be 
the winner: that would be clearly unfair and as good or bad as no 
compensation.

The other point is, I want to get into a way of business beyond laws, 
(and beyond the idea of a fixed market price) but still have a clear 
point for people who can only think of laws. I do not intend to sue 
anybody who would want to rip me off, but I would make it public! For 
big compamies bad press is much more expensive than paying a fair 
compensation. (They might want to avoid that with unfair lawsuits, thats 
why it has to be well laid out.)

> Scenario one:  Your music is distributed under the  BY-SA-CFE licence.
>  Their idea of "fair compensation" will be zero dollars and zero
> cents.
> Scenario two:  Your music is distributed under the BY-SA-FCR licence. 
> Their idea of "fair compensation" will be one dollar and one cent.

> Whilst either a BY-SA-NC-FRE or BY-SA-NC-FCR licence would disallow
> both of those scenarios, would the resulting complexity clarify things
> more than the current BY-NC-SA?

Yes, because I tell publicly that I do want compensation, and if a 
user/company which is clearly capable of compensating does not do so, it 
might harm them more than just doing it. They usually have no problem to 
pay fees to authors rights associations. It just has to be easy.

And its clearly more free than a strict NC. But the main point is even 
if I don't care about unfair users, I do care about potential users 
which know what fairness means. For them it has to be easy, otherwise 
they don't use it.

Stefan

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