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Re: [cc-licenses] Maybe Dual Licensing is the solution.

From: James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Maybe Dual Licensing is the solution.
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:59:41 -0500

drew Roberts wrote:

For those of you who are willing to allow someone
a commercial monopoly on some particular platform,
I suggest that you take your content and do like
the dual-licensers do. License your work CC-SA
and contribute it to some larger community, and
then when some proprietary company wants the exclusive
rights to use that content on their DRM-Only hardware
platform, dual license your content. Give the proprietary
vendor a CC-BY license to use your work on their
platform, let them have sole right to commercial advantage
on that platform, and everyone should be happy.

They don't even have to give the vendor a BY license, thay can give him the BY-SA with the PD clause that they want.

Or, better yet, give the vendor BY-ND (with a side promise not to enforce the anti-DRM clause), and do the parallel distribution yourself.

James

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