Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Nancy Ide <ide AT cs.vassar.edu>]

On Jun 5, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Ali Baba wrote:
>         Maybe they just can't use ARR works, so they would like to use CC
> works instead, but found that the great majority of these are just as
> unuseable as ARR works.

Correct.

> But then, why not also complain about ARR
> works? I think the reason is: because in this case there is nobody to
> complain to.

Correct again, but only in part. See below.
> 	Pretty simple, you see. Which doesn't make it rational -- but who  
> said
> people always act rationally, again? ;-)

I wrote to the cc-licenses group thinking (at the time) that this was  
a group of people who had thought a lot about fair and free use as  
opposed to ARR, knew a lot about copyright laws, were open to  
reasonable uses of electronically published data, and who might  
engage in a (rational) discussion of a license to allow for a kind of  
access that would both protect the authors and enable legitimate  
research use. So far, no discussion, rational or otherwise, has ensued.

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