Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Pranesh Prakash <pranesh AT cis-india.org>]

Rob Myers [2013-01-26 16:33]:
> I think it would be good to ensure that watermarks/fingerprints can be 
> removed. They have no expressive purpose as part of a work and are 
> essentially spyware.

Could you please elaborate on this?  How are watermarks "spyware"?  And
if a photographer wishes to use a creative commons licence and wishes to
rely not on metadata for acknowledgement purposes but on visible marks,
then why should that not be allowed?

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