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  • From: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution Statement
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:12:28 +0000

James wrote:

Ultimately, if some creators would like a stringent anti-DRM clause and others would prefer anti-DRM with parallel distribution, I think this is an entirely appropriate split to make in the licenses.

+1

CC BY-LL : Creative Commons Parallel-Distribution-Allowed;
CC-BY-DRM : Creative Commons Digital-Rights-Management Allowed;
CC-BY-NO : Creative Commons Attribution Parallel-Distribution-Prohibited Digital-Rights-Management-Prohibited

NO is functionally opposed to both LL & DRM.
SA & ND are functionally opposed to each other

Rephrased.
* Do you want to be attributed for you work: yes / no; [BY]
* Do you want to prohibit commercial distribution: yes/no [NC]
* Do you want to prohibit derivatives: yes/no [ND=yes SA=no]
* Do you want to prohibit DRM: yes/no [NO=yes, DR=no]
** IF DRM then
Do you want to require Parallel Distribution [LL=yes, DRM = no]

Note: The wording,and sequence of the questions can have a significant effect on which licence(s) become the most popular.
The above sequence would result in CC-BY-NC-ND-NO being the most commonly selected licence --- due to the design of the questions. Technical merit would play little, if any role in license selection.

That said, the current profusion of licenses has been generating confusion, and this is not a propitious time to be splitting off new license variants.

I suspect that most of the confusion is because:
* The specific terms are not defined within the license;
* The meaning of the licenses are vague in critical places;

I'd suggest that creating more variants now will be much better -- both short term and long term --- than doing so in the future.

One possibility is a blanket renaming of current CC licences, that excludes the CC name.

EG: "Walled Licence" for ND work;

xan

jonathon




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