Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam AT benfinney.id.au>]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis AT pitrou.net>
writes:

> We are talking about taking a free license and adding a clause against
> misrepresenting opinions, all the while keeping it a free license.

Thanks for being clear in your intent.

I think that is a mistaken goal, attempting to use copyright for more
than it can reasonably be expected to do.

Misrepresenting opinions, to the extent that it should be a legal
offense, is a deceit, not a violation of copyright. What laws cover
deceit? Fraud, defamation, etc. – not copyright.

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