Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <frx AT firenze.linux.it>]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:36:56 -0500 Greg London wrote:

[same questions repeated for the n-th time]

Greg, frankly speaking, repeating arguments over and over again does not
help in having a useful discussion.  Please take your time to read what
the other participants wrote and think about it: you are of course
entitled to your own opinions, but restating them 5 or 10 times a day
won't make you more convincing...

That having said, I can "throw a yes/no answer" to your questions.

> Without any DRM solution applied to CC-SA:
> CAN Dave monopolize the content on and off his platform?
> CAN Dave monopolize Distribution and Commercial rights on his
> platform?

Without *any* anti-DRM clause, Dave can do both the above-quoted things.
So it's yes to both.

Should this be disallowed?
I think disallowing both these scenarios is desirable, *but* let's be
careful: we should *not* throw away the baby along with the bath water.
My primary concern is freedom for the licensees: we should *not*
sacrifice the essential freedoms for users, in order to fight back
against evil DRM Daves.  A strong defense against the bad consequences
of DRM/TPM is good *as long as* it's not obtained through non-free
restrictions.

For further details, please see:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2006-November/004596.html

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..................................................... Francesco Poli .
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