Development of Creative Commons licenses

[rob AT robmyers.org]

Image libraries seem to have no trouble defining the circumstances in 
which use
of their copyrighted material requires payment, or the scope and nature of use
that they will consider at all. They do not use an existing narrow right, they
use an existing blanket right and give permission to exercise this right in
narrow circumstances with carefully worded limits and requirements.

So real-world experience shows that the case of illustrations doesn't 
need a new
narrow right, it doesn't need the meaning of any legal terms to be 
changed, and
it doesn't need the scope of the license to be limited discretely by the
terminology used by the law.

For a copyleft license the case of illustration needs the scope of the license
to expand to cover reproduction in a few carefully defined cases where
reproduction rather than derivation creates a context where "share and share
alike" is broken.

Assuming that doing so isn't harmful.

- Rob.