Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Luis Villa" <luis AT tieguy.org>]

On 8/11/06, Paul Keller <paul AT waag.org> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-11-08 at 19:28 +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
> >> And the PSP is not positioned as a media player. Sony's mistake,
> >> but there you are. The better example is the iPod, which can be
> >> handled more effectively by not allowing DRM distribution but
> >> giving a special exception for rendering works inaccessible on
> >> devices they cannot be removed on (an "iPod exception").
> > I don't follow that. Can you unpack that a bit?
> >> That would be more "pragmatic"...
> > I'm not sure I understand how.
>
> i dont get this either.  at least my ipod plays mp3s just fine no
> need to drm stuff to play on my ipod.... only situation where drm/tpm
> is required is when i want to sell something through the ITMS. why
> should i allow others to sell stuff i release under a CC license
> through the ITMS?

If you don't want them to sell your content, that's what NC is for,
and is not the purpose of a DRM clause. Please keep the two issues
(DRM and NC) separate- this discussion is muddled enough as is.

Luis