Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

["Danyl Strype" <strypey AT riseup.net>]

Tena koutou

The only argument that's come up against CC ANZ taking public policy  
positions *as an organization* is the risk of alienating potential  
allies. To me this is a good argument for choosing carefully what  
positions to take, and making sure they represent a consensus of the  
CC community, but not an argument against taking any position. For  
example, if changes to the Copyright Act were proposed that would  
break the CC licenses, we would have to campaign publicly against  
this, and it would be clearly within the scope of the CC mission.

It may be a useful exercise to consider the Free Software Foundation,  
whose core activities are to maintain the GNU General Public License,  
and encourage the communities developing and using free software,  
which parallels the CC mission of maintaining licenses and connecting  
with people making use of them. However, they are also outspoken on  
issues like software patents, and TPM (Technological Protection  
Mechanisms, also known as DRM - Digital Rights/ Restrictions  
Management), which have the potential to negatively affect the  
communities they work with.

I think the Wellington Declaration was carefully crafted to avoid  
casting us as foaming-mouthed cyber-luddites, and address the  
substance of our concerns. I would like to see CC jurisdictions,  
including CC ANZ, publicly supporting it as organizations, as well as  
individuals supporters. However, I would want to ensure that there is  
consensus on this from CC Aotearoa community, and that any concerns  
anyone has are addressed and resolved.

This brings up wider issues of CC ANZ decision-making and governance,  
which I'll address in a separate email.

Ma te wa
Danyl

Quoting "Andy Linton" <asjl AT lpnz.org>:

> On 16/04/10  Fri, Apr 16, 11:46, Jane Hornibrook wrote:
> > Hi Leigh,
> >
> > Yes of course I know you! Good to hear from you....
> >
> > I guess what I asking was "Should the mission and scope of each Creative
> > Commons project be sufficiently wide enough to encompass activities like
> > publicACTA in it's everyday business?"
> >
> > As you probably know, by shifting our CC project to a new 'host'
> > organisation, we're in a process of planning our growing structure and
> > revisiting our scope. I'd like to keep CC's activities as wide as possible,
> > and was wondering whether other CC projects around the world would have
> > considered working on something like publicACTA as an appropriate activity
> > they would take up with their CC swords blazing.
> >
> > My answer to that was "I'm unsure".
>
> I think Jane raises an excellent point here. It seems likely that those
> who support the ideals of Creative Commons will be concerned about any
> move that seems as though it will stifle creativity and free exchange of
> ideas but where does the Creative Commons mission boundary fall?
>
> My personal opinion is that this is pretty much in scope but this sort
> of question needs to be one that gets asked again and again.
>
>
>
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