Development of the Creative Commons Sampling license (or license option)

[Cory Doctorow <cory AT eff.org>]

Re-Create is far too cute, IMO.

Sampling and Remixing are both commonly understood verbs that describe 
what the license *does*. I think that CC licenses are already saddled 
with a lot of disucssion (what's a CC license? why should I use one? 
etc) -- adding more by dint of a name that uses unfamiliar terms 
(moreover, a term that's a near-hominym and a spell-alike cognate for a 
completely different, unrelated verb) is just adding baggage where it 
can be least afforded.



On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 12:10  AM, Glenn Otis Brown wrote:

> Another thing to think about:
>
> What should this license be called? We've been saying "sampling." 
> That's
> a good name in that it gets the point across quickly. But it may imply
> too narrow a range of uses.
>
> Other names we've played with:
>
> The Re-Create License
> The Remix License
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glenn
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> Creative Commons
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