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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] New Generic and ports
  • Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:36:16 +0100

drew Roberts wrote:
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.

CC are working on an NC definition and I thought the initial version was very good. I've also had useful discussions with educational users of NC, and I personally think that it is possible for a state or nonprofit educational institution to make NC use of work.

[...]T his "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.

Amen.

Personally I would like to see NC and ND deprecated.

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?)

You can copy them over peer to peer networks. This is a net gain over how ARR is generally applied by the record companies.

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?

The problem is that if you look at CC usage, NC is the most popular license module.

There is also overwhelming backing for NC from Lessig, as putting a URL after NC works where you can buy an ARR license to the work solves the problem of people confusing libre and gratis by confusing them for them.

- Rob.




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