Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <teloscorbin AT gmail.com>]

Sorry, maybe I should clarify.
I'm not looking for a "yes but"
followed by the reason you support your solution,
I'm looking for a yes or no as to whether the problems
as describe below actually exist or not.

The IMPORTANCE of each one may be weighed and traded
in coming up with a solution, but we need to at least agree
that a problem of some level exists before we'll ever
get any agreement.



On 12/6/06, Greg London <teloscorbin AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we ought to start out and agree
> on what the actual problem we're trying to
> solve really is:
>
> The problem:
> ShareAlike without any DRM clause
> (neither anti-tpm nor par-dist)
> allows the DRM-Daves of the world
> to monopolize two different rights:
>
> (1) the right to the content itself
> (2) the right to distribute/sell the work on Dave's platform.
>
>
> (1) The content can be monopolized because
> Dave wraps it in DRM and no one else can
> extract the original content in a clear format.
> Derivatives of CC-SA works could be closed
> off inside of DRM so that no one but Dave
> can access the content. This means that
> Sam could create CC-SA work, and Dave could
> create a derivative, wrap it in DRM, distribute
> it on his DRM-only platform, and no one would
> be able to extract a non-DRM file of the content.
>
> (2) The right to distribute and sell the work on
> Dave's DRM-only hardware could be monopolized
> exclusively by Dave. Even if the content is not
> monopolized by parallel distribution, no one but
> Dave can distribute or sell the content on his
> DRM-only hardware if he wishes to withold
> permission to do so.
>
> Can we all at least agree on these two points?
>
> That these are the two basic problems that need
> to be addressed in CC-SA, regardless of how
> it is implemented in the license?
>
> Could everyone throw in a yes/no to this?
> Especially the Par-Dist proponents, since
> it seems that we have been completely unable
> to agree on anythign thus far.
>
> Greg London