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

[David meme <david AT locarecords.com>]

Words are polysemic. We invest them with meaning.

> Seems confrontational, rather than reassuring. Is there any widely 
> understood context in which people seek out opportunities to *be* 
> appropriated, or when being appropriated is a good deal for the 
> appropriatee?

Re-appropriating has a very positive connotation particularly in regard 
to Marx who promised that the worker would be able to re-appropriate 
his/her labour and hence be free of tyranny.


> Reuse, recycling = Ambiguous -- how is that different from "reuse" by 
> burning it onto a CD (permitted under existing CC licenses)?

Reuse and recycling have extremely positive connotations (eg 
Environmental movements, ecologists). Reuse implies that even if they 
are used once they can be used again and again... recycling has ideas 
of sharing and working together to the common good rather than 
selfishly acting alone...

All good things...

> Resampling = Invented word, inherently hard to understand

Two issues:
1. Resampling is not a made up word, well not in as much as it is 
widely used in music technology to refer to a process of changing a 
sample speed, resolution or pitch. See 
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jos/resample/
2. In any case, even if it were that should not be a problem as we are 
free to invest a word with meaning ourselves and if it is not 
previously used then it is easier to define without regard to 
alternative interpretations...

> Sample free = Not sure why this is better than the more clear, briefer 
> "sampling"

Sample free has positive connotations of freedom (Free as in..) and 
also Sampling itself is heavily invested with ideas of copyright as 
sampling itself has been nailed down by the majors... Additionally 
sampling is a verb, the act of making samples, rather than a 
description of how you can use these samples...



You have an extremely positivistic conception of language, words are 
not representational, they are invested with meaning by ourselves in 
and through discourse. Therefore we should think not just of words as a 
technical mapping of word to object but also of the positive 
connotations that we can invest in the license by the use of our 
language...

Cheers

David

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