Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru AT gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I am concerned by the plausible effect of “Commercial Rights Reserved“
>> potential of sending legacy copyright‘s chilling effect?
>> Borne of the need to protect the otherwise ‘grey‘ innovation space enjoyed
>> under the current licences categorizations.
>
> I do not understand what you are saying here even if I temporarily
> accept the premise that it is ethical to intentionally write vague
> licenses with for the purpose of fostering misunderstandings and make
> their user's intentions unenforceable.
>
> Can you specifically enumerate an example sequence of events which
> using "commercial rights reserved" instead of "non commercial" may
> result in an unwelcome outcome due to a reduction in "grey innovation
> space"?


This may be an oversimplification, but looking at this from the
vantage point of a largely disinterested observer; it does appear
the problem is that there is a difference between:

"I and only I can exploit this resource for a closely defined purpose,
no one else may do so, or allow others to do so."

...and...

"I declare I will not, nor will allow anyone to allow anyone, in
perpetuity, to exploit this resource for the closely defined
purposes which I define."




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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen,