Development of Creative Commons licenses

[rob AT robmyers.org]

Quoting Greg London <email AT greglondon.com>:

> > James Grimmelmann and I have written and begun distributing a position
> > statement in favor of parallel distribution in the CC licenses.
> >
> > Neither of us has been involved in the debate on this list so far
> > In our statement, we end by encouraging affected users of CC
> > licenses to write to this list. This message can act as a heads up.
>
> You haven't been involved in the discussion on this list so far,
> and your first message is to let us know that you've posted a
> piece encouraging people to come to this list advocating for
> parallel distribution?

Terry provided a very good overview of the prior arguments against DRM,
including Greg's "DRM Dave" scenario, here:

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/debian_and_the_creative_commons

I would add that, as someone who has installed GNU/Linux on my iPod, who has
recently read the Yellow Dog Linux announcement for the PS3, who uses 
their PS2
as a CD and DVD player, and whose son seems to get MP3s, images and 
movies onto
his PSP OK, I do not understand the argument that the best way of "helping"
users is to assist third parties in trapping them under DRM regimes 
rather than
assisting users in installing and using free software.

- Rob.