Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Sunday 06 May 2007 11:17 am, Greg London wrote:
> > The fragmentation comes from Alice's gesture of
> > making something free (to share at the very least)
> > which is then levered into commercial space and
> > suddenly becomes very un-free.
>
> Ah, so the concern is Alice records a song,
> licenses it CC-SA, then Bob comes along and
> uses the compulsory license to make a
> Non-Free cover of Alice's song. And Bob's
> version remains AllRightsReserved.
>
> I believe that is a legal possibility.
>
> I don't see it as a huge issue.
> Where copyleft becomes extremely important
> is when you have a community project that
> spans many, many generations of derivations,
> many, many contributers.

But this is exactly how music would work in the absence of copyright law. 

http://www.archive.org/details/Mississippi_John_Hurt-Stack_O_Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee

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all the best,

drew
-- 
(da idea man)