Development of Creative Commons licenses

[David Chart <bydosa AT davidchart.com>]

On 2012/04/14, at 4:14, Rob Myers wrote:

> The only "you" who needs and will benefit from this power are DRM 
> platform vendors.

This is not true. Creators who become able to distribute and sell to people 
who own iPhones also benefit, as do the people who own the iPhones.

If we are using the licenses as a political tool against things of which we 
disapprove, can I suggest adding a clause prohibiting distribution in 
jurisdictions without strong legal protection of free speech? (China, North 
Korea, Iran, most of the 'stans) This is a bigger problem than DRM. Why isn't 
CC taking a strong stand?

If the license is not supposed to be a political tool in this way, I fail to 
see how prohibiting a certain form of distribution increases anyone's 
freedom. If you were allowed to distribute DRM-encumbered versions without a 
parallel version, that would, obviously, be a problem. However, no-one is 
suggesting that.

-- 
David Chart
http://www.davidchart.com/