Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:10 am, paola.dimaio AT gmail.com wrote:
> Terry
>
> I realy think it is irresponsible to allow a license to use work
> without any conditions attached
>
> Most authors that I know would be horrified if their work would be
> used 'freely' on a website instigating racial hatred, or war, or some
> other aberration
>
> 'Incompabtile, is not my requirement , incompatible is a license that
> does not protect my
> work against unlawful exploitation

Paola, there is something about your concerns and the way you state them that 
I don't get.

The law already protects your work from unlawful exploitation. Otherwise, it 
would be lawful exploitation. You seem to be wanting redundancy, not only 
should it be unlawful due to the laws already on the books, it also should be 
unlawful due to copyright laws.

Again I ask, if someone is going to break those more serious laws in 
exploiting your work, why would a copyright law prevent them?

I think perhaps your concern is rather over your "perceived" support of these 
uses. I think that is a real danger that those of us concerned with Free 
works are doing to face until the world gets used to Free works and people 
grow in their understanding of Free licensing works.

I seem to remember someone who had coded up a synth that I messed about with 
having it under the GPL, but then, outside of the license, letting you know 
that he didn't want you using it for making certain types of music. He did 
not try and use his copyright to prevent that, he just made it clear that he 
was not OK with it.
>
> I really think CC should think about that and allow users to chose an
> 'ethical' license if they so wish
>
> not sure what's the best way to do it
>
> I may have to work of fork, regrettably

Which licenses do you want this for? BY-NC? BY-NC-ND? BY? BY-SA? BY-NC-SA?
>
> pdm

all the best,

drew
>
>
> pdm
>
> On 10/3/07, Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> > paola.dimaio AT gmail.com wrote:
> > > yes David
> > > I think it would be fair,
> > > it's better if the fork remains compatible if possible, no?
> >
> > Your requirement is by definition *incompatible*.
> >
> > Either give up on your requirement or on being CC compatible. Those are
> > your choices.
> >
> > --
> > Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
> > Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
> >
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