Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Sunday 25 June 2006 10:15 pm, Greg London wrote:
> > What if, instead of an assignment, there was a grant.
> > Something like Bruce does over at technocrat.net:
>
> And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.

Hey, if that was the case, do you think she could have been in that new 
Disney 
flick?
>
> The public still ends up with a CC-ND work, plus
> a number of modifications that they can't even
> apply to the work without Phil's permission.
> If Phil were to take down his site, all contributers
> are screwed.

>
> Really, drew, I don't understand why you're arguing this.

Mostly as a mental experiment/excercise. Again, if I were to propose any 
cource of action, it would be to make the works BY-SA and be done with it.

The mental experiment is to try and think up the conditions necessary to have 
the works act like BY-SA "on-wiki" and BY-ND "off-wiki" while providing for a 
continuation on the part of a member of the public or a third party  
contributor in the case the original wiki goes "off-net."

I don't think it is worth doing as, as I stated in a previous post, in order 
to find and deal with "private violators" wou will need to use nasty 
measures.

So, you go to all of this effort for what I see as no net benefit over BY-SA.

That said, if someone cannot see a way to use the current CC licenses to do 
what they want and are going to craft custome licenses, I rather they do it 
in as BY-SA way as possible.

If the protections I put forth were in place and they actually would work the 
way I think, I might contribute to such a project. It would depend if it were 
a purely functional site or an artistic site. For art, no. Whereas, I am none 
to interested in contributing to any CC licensed project that is not using 
BY-SA because they do not protect me in the way I wish.

> Yeah, Phil, and anyone else who wants to, can craft their
> own license, and do whatever they want to do with their
> works. The simple fact is that the currently available
> licenses have a history of showing that they work,
> that they work for protecting a works Freedom, that they
> work making sure the work remains Shared, and absolutely
> NOTHING Phil has said here indicates that those already
> existing licenses wouldn't do the job.

Huh? The currently available CC licenses (all of them) have a proven history 
of doing this? (I think I know what you mean, but did you word this right?)
>
> Instead, Phil has decided that he knows better than
> two decades worth of projects licensed under FLOSS
> licenses. And to call him on it is, apparently, to
> insult his character. 

I think you will see that my first post to him on this thread pointed out 
where I thought he read this wrong and that you were talking a general "you" 
and not specifically adressing him as him.

> If Phil wants to maintain the 
> Freedom of the work and make sure the work remains
> Shared, then there are proven licenses to do that:
> GNU-GPL or CC-SA.
>
> if he wishes to use CC-ND, and several overlapping
> contracts that he crafted himself, it's his right
> to do so, and I believe I even explained to him what
> he would need to do in one of my first responses on
> this thread. But I won't buy into his claims that whatever
> he comes up with is better than copyleft or sharealike,
> or that his project has anything to do with freedom
> or sharing.

See this link:

http://www.gnu.org/press/2002-03-19-Affero.html

There can be new licenses that are copyleft.

I think you may be able to craft a set of licenses and agreements that act 
very much like copyleft / the gpl. The one thing I can't see how to do is 
preserve the right to private copies as you are setting out specifically to 
remove this right. And if I read the original concerns right, it is this 
exact reason for not using BY-SA in the first place.

I certainly think you can prevent anyone from having a privileged position 
vis 
a vis anyone else.

In any case, I fully understand you asking me this as I surprised even myself 
by spending so much time on something not directly to copyleft matters.

>
> Greg

all the best,

drew
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