Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

Eric Garner wrote:
> Why not break the non-TPA language out of the ND, NC, SA, etc. licenses 
> and make it a completely separate option called "N-TPA" or something 
> like that? 

Because in my opinion TPMs are part of the general problem that needs to 
be solved, not a separate issue. TPMs prevent sharing *physically* 
(well, electronically), where copyright only prevents it legally. TPMs 
break SA most noticeably but they also break the free sharing of 
unmodified versions that is the basic freedom that all CC licenses give 
you. It does not make sense to treat TPMs separately any more than it 
would make sense to divide the CC licenses up into modules that tackle 
successive copyright acts.

- Rob.