Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Monday 13 August 2012 19:28:44 Anthony wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Andrew Rens <andrewrens AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 13, 2012 4:54 PM, "drew Roberts" <zotz AT 100jamz.com> wrote:
> >> Party 1 send an unprotected file to party 2 via https or scp. It goes
> >> in one end unprotected and comes out the other end the same way. The
> >> protection is against third party snooping on the transfer, it does not
> >> make it so that party 2 has reduced abilities with respect to party 1
> >> because of the use of https or sc
> >
> > Well said
>
> Oversimplified, though.  We don't know what abilities party 2 has
> until we know what control s/he has over the receiving computer.  If
> the receiving computer doesn't let party 2 access the unprotected
> file, then presumably the CC license has been violated.

Can you give elaborate on this with an example or three? Spell out some 
situations that you imagine could actually take place.

Would the situation you put forward in general be any different practically 
than a receiving computer that did not let party 2 access any files at all?

all the best,

drew