Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Lucas Gonze" <lucas.gonze AT gmail.com>]

My point is that Jenny has a communication problem which will have to
be addressed using communication tools.  Fiddling with licenses, as
the original poster proposed, won't help her.  I'm not advocating not
telling her that NC will backfire, I'm advocating speaking truthfully.

That said, the best way to help her learn is to help her reap the
benefits of allowing commercial use.  One way is to encourage the
creation of companies which must help CC creators in order to reap
profits.  A for-profit Mixter is one example -- musicians wouldn't be
able to benefit from such a site if they didn't allow commercial use.

-Lucas

On 4/6/07, Eric Garner <ejgarner AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Let's not forget that the CC community is still trying
> to bring in fresh blood, offering a user-friendly
> system to simplify the licensing process as much as
> possible. Jenny hears the call, and does what she
> feels she should to protect her work while making it
> available for people to legally play. But Jenny is no
> more a computer programmer than a lawyer. She's trying
> to stay focussed on making good music, not wanting to
> become preoccupied with these licensing issues (which
> probably give her a headache). Now how user-friendly
> is that, for CC to let her work "dissappear into the
> dead zone" and tell her after-the-fact that she should
> have figured this all out from the fine print? If the
> answer is not to categorize commercial use, but to
> help Jenny learn to use free licenses instead, then
> why not state the dangers more prominently so Jenny
> won't be left wondering why her music isn't being used
> by webcasters?
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