Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 04/10/2012 02:19 PM, drew Roberts wrote:
> There is no reason why BY or BY-SA should be incompatible either.

There is because it clashes with how collecting societies operate at the 
moment. If I belong to a collecting society, and I license my work 
BY-SA, then there is a contradiction between the society's right to 
collect on the copyrights of my work, and your right to use the work 
Free-as-in-Freedom way.

I can give you the right to freely use my work, or I can give the 
collecting society the right to collect fees from everyone who uses my 
work. I cannot do both at the same time...

Every so often someone proposes a creating a CC-friendly collecting 
society. It doesn't happen, but I think that existing collecting 
societies could do their members a great service by also enforcing CC 
licenses.

- Rob.