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  • From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako AT atdot.cc>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Coloriuris
  • Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:22:08 -0500

<quote who="carobotero AT karisma.org.co" date="Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:19:58AM
-0500">
> >> Evan Prodromou escribió:
> >>> Their system seems to be based on some kind of copyright assignment,
> >>> kind of like the Founders' Copyright.
>
> No, it is the other way around, in the founders' idea you keep you
> Copyright for a limited period of time and then you release it to Public
> Domain. In the Coloriuris squeme you allow some uses to the public during
> a limited time (normally 5 years), you are not giving away your copyright
> so you regain the full control after the period of time of the
> authorization.

I think Evan was pointing out that it required a type of copyright
assignment and an explicit process to opt in that was like the founder
copyright. Not that it was like the founders copyright in other ways
including the way you describe. Clearly it is quite different in many
regards.

Regards,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
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Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
far as society is free to use the results. --RMS

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