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Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban

From: "Greg London" <teloscorbin AT gmail.com>
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 10:11:20 -0400

On 8/16/06, Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org> wrote:

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.

But all licenses other than ShareAlike allow
a work to be put under a more restrictive license.
You could concievably roll the work into an
All Rights Reserved license as long as you don't
violate the original license yourself.

And only ShareAlike and CC-BY are Gift Economy
licenses. All other licenses are really Market Economy
licences, and I'm not so concerned about protecting
someone's FreeSamples stuff as I am concerned
about protecting some group's FLOSS project.

Greg

[cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban, MJ Ray, 08/15/2006
- Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban, rob, 08/15/2006
  - Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban, MJ Ray, 08/17/2006
- Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban, Greg London, 08/15/2006
  - Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban, Rob Myers, 08/16/2006
    - Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Remove the TPM-ban, Greg London, 08/16/2006