Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2006-December/004634.html

>Use of DRM on a redistributed CC work is okay ONLY IF:
>1) The work is also made available in an unDRMed parallel version, and
>2) Everyone is free to apply the DRM.
>
>I would moderately prefer the straightforward parallel distribution
>clause to this one.  I would much prefer this version to a license
>without a parallel distribution.  (And I would consider a license
>without an anti-DRM clause at all unacceptable.)

Now I'm totally confused.

>2) Everyone is free to apply the DRM.

This can only occur if DRM-Dave gives everyone permission to
apply DRM to the content that he provided.

If DRM-Dave is willing to do this, then he isn't trying to
monopolize his platform, and his platform should support
either transparent DRM (DRM that simply tells the platform
to place no restrictions on the work) or open format content
(text files, jpgs, mpegs files, etc.) and then it won't be
a problem anyway.

Also, the anti-TPM clause as it is currently proposed
allows local application of DRM to CC-SA works.
This means if Dave allows (2), then you can apply
DRM to your local CC-SA copy and load it to your platform
under the current proposed language for the license.

The only restriction with the Anti-TPM clause is
that you cannot distribute that DRM version if
that version has restricted rights.

But you can use it locally on your hardware platform.

The only thing you don't get out of the current
anti-TPM clause is a parallel distribution copy.

But if Dave is willing to allow people to apply DRM,
then it isn't a problem. You just do it to your local copy.

Yes?

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