Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Sunday 08 October 2006 04:28 am, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2006, at 08:24, jonathon wrote:
> > Since I expect the most significant dispute to be over the meaning of
> > "Non Commercial",
>
> FWIW, I think NC is a major bug in CC. First, I think it is
> irresponsible to offer a license whose meaning is unclear even to the
> CC folks themselves. Second, CC creates a brand image that CC equals
> Free Culture which is even stated to be inspired by Free Software,
> but NC is not Free as in Free Software. (CC also talks about Open
> Music when referring to Magnatune, but Magnatune's music is not Open
> as in Open Source.)

This "mislableing" problem is cropping up all the time.
>
> Now the Free as in Free Software type of Free Culture loses works to
> NC, because having NC available makes authors choose it by knee-jerk
> reaction. If NC wasn't available, to associate oneself with the brand
> of Free Culture, one would actually have to make the works Free as in
> Free Software.

As big a bug as NC is, I think ND is a bigger one. Exactly what, from a 
creative comons point of view, can one do with an ND work that you can't do 
with an all rights reserved work. (I am not saying that I don't prefer ND 
works or even NC-ND works to "ARR" works, just asking what commons benefit 
they give?)

Would CC be willing to consider a "Free CC" logo / brand / subsection that 
those of us concerned with "Free Culture" ... can associate under and 
promote? Do others concerned with "Free" think this is wise or would be 
useful?

> Henri Sivonen

all the best,

drew
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