Development of Creative Commons licenses

["S. Massy" <smassy AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:31:19AM +1100, Javier Candeira wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
> > My take is that artists using NC are either not thinking enough steps 
> > ahead 
> > just yet, or are full of themselves, or are trying to take advantage of 
> > the 
> > "commons" for their own private reasons without actually wanting to 
> > benefit 
> > the "commons." (With a few possible wiggle areas.)
> > Why would I make these claims which may seem harsh?
> > 
> > Enough steps ahead: how can any artist make a living "commons wise" when 
> > all 
> > works end up NC?
> 
> ?Exactly how do you expect the novelists currently publishing under a
> by-nc-sa license to make a living if they publish their work under by-sa?
> 
> > Why not leave the option for making money open for all including youself 
> > down 
> > the road should you be in a position to do so at a later date?
> 
> > How do you see NC being a better defense than SA? (Or a stronger SA?)
> 
> SA only serves to dilute the scarcity value of copies, making more difficult
> for everyone (including authors) to make money off copies. Free Sofware goes
> around it by making money off services, but unfortunately there aren't many
> high-paying jobs for novelists. Especially now that the Web is slowly
> eroding profits at newspapers.
I must say, this is a concern for writers wishing to use free licenses
whilst still earning a living. Musicians and performing artists still
have the opportunity to perform for profit or release higher quality
versions of their songs/recordings. Photographers and graphic artists
can (and often) do something similar, releasing a low-resolution
version of a picture under a free license and making a higher
resolution available on request or for some form of monetary
compensation. Writers do not really have such alternatives, as a body
of text is a body of text is body of test... Once you've read
something, you've read it; if it is very good, you might wish to read
it again, but are unlikely to wish to read it every day or hang it on
your wall. 
S.M.
> 
> -- javier
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