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  • From: Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban
  • Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:06:49 +0100

On 15 Aug 2006, at 19:40, Greg London wrote:

I think the TPM and DRM clauses are only needed
in the ShareAlike license, since that's the only license
that is intended to protect a project from proprietary
forking and other gambits.

The CC licenses all allow noncommercial distribution of unmodified works. DRM can be used to prevent this. But BY and BY-NC derivatives should probably allow DRM, otherwise they are reserving more rights than they claim to.

- Rob.




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