Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Tuesday 08 May 2012 01:48:44 Ben Finney wrote:
> > Common sense and honesty should be enough to prompt people to disclaim
> > when they have changed the spirit of someone else's writings. Not
> > everything needs to be formalized in a legal license.
>
> Defamation law, fraud law, and other similar laws are better positioned
> to protect the author's meaning and intent in their work. Copyright is a
> poor tool for the job, and as many others have pointed out we have
> better tools available.

Actually, many of us don't or don't know what we have.

Those other laws are certainly the proper tool for the job if they were well 
built and maintained.

The problem is that in many places copyright law may seem simpler to apply 
and 
able to give a more sure outcome with less effort. (This thought could 
probably be improved but I hope you catch the essence of it.)

all the best,

drew