Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 14:06 -0500, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> The language in the current draft says:
> 
>   When You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
>   digitally perform the Work, You may not impose any technological
>   measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the
>   Work from You to exercise the right granted to them under the
>   License.
> 
> Your argument seems to be that this is only really in effect if you
> cannot legally work around it without the possibility of a DMCA
> violation.

That is what I care about.  But I may be projecting what I care about
onto the licenses, leading me to misunderstand the latter.

> The argument that Greg London, Terry et al. have been taking is a
> deeper on about parity in access to the technology to run their own
> derivatives on the platforms for which any version was distributed.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something.

That's their argument.  Incredibly you managed to state it with about
1/10th of the verbosity it takes them to even warm up.  It isn't
something I worry about in any case.

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