Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:32 am, James Grimmelmann wrote:
> > Greg London wrote:
> > > Without any DRM clause of any kind, ShareAlike has a loophole
> > > that allows DRM Dave to use the work without sharing the work
> > > on his platform. Only he can distribute works on his platform.
> > > Only he can create derivatives on his platform.
> > This is true.  But the same is true if DRM Dave makes snow globes that
> > play a CC-licensed song.  Nobody else can put derivatives (or anything
> > at all) on this sort of snow globe--simply because Dave is the one with
> > the manufacturing plant. Why is this not a platform monopoly of this
> > troubling sort?
> James, is this really an honest question on your part or are you just trying 
> to pin someone down to bolster your case?

I want to put this question to Greg.  You and he are making similar 
points, but you have different conceptual frameworks.  My apologies for 
not making clearer that this is a question of him in particular, not of 
all opponents of parallel distribution.

James