Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>]

On Wed, 2006-29-11 at 21:20 +0000, Rob Myers wrote:

> >   Since the dominant argument against parallel distribution on this
> >   list seems to boil down to a critique that the clause provide a way
> >   to sidestep copyleft, 
> 
> The clause provides a way of removing people's rights. 

That's simply not true. Nobody loses any rights from having the clause
added, and your net freedom is greater with a parallel distribution
clause than without it.

Without PD, here are your rights w/r/t a CC-BY- or CC-BY-SA-licensed
work:

                        On open         On DRM-required
                        platforms       platforms
        -----------------------------------------------
        Freedom 0       X               
        Freedom 1       X
        Freedom 2       X
        Freedom 3       X

With PD, here are your Freedoms:

                        On open         On DRM-required
                        platforms       platforms
        -----------------------------------------------
        Freedom 0       X               X               
        Freedom 1       X               X
        Freedom 2       X               (depends on platform)
        Freedom 3       X               (depends on platform)

Net freedoms are increased, plain and simple, even in the worst case for
platforms where you can't distribute a verbatim or modified version of
the work to run on that platform.

~Evan

-- 
Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>