Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:47:36 +1000 Ben Finney wrote:

> Gisle Hannemyr <gisle AT ifi.uio.no> writes:
[...]
> > PROs are important and valuable members of the infrastructure that
> > ensures public access to culture.
> 
> In a world where any copyright holder can promote their own material
> without transferring their rights, it seems to me PROs are *not*
> valuable for ensuring public access to culture.
> 
> If they are getting in the way of artists engaging the public (through,
> e.g., Creative Commons licenses) then PROs remain important only to the
> extent that they impede public access to culture. If they stop their
> insistence on being gatekeepers, they might become valuable again.
> 
> I hope the trend continues of artists realising they don't need to sign
> over a single right exclusively to any organisation in order to promote
> their work to the public.

Fully agreed, I have nothing to add.
Thanks for spelling this out so clearly, Ben!


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