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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

IANAL, I'm nothing to do with CC.

On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at 01:34PM, Cory Doctorow <cory AT eff.org> wrote:

>> Remove any mention of the Author from any new Version or larger piece 
>> in which the Work is included, if the Creator requests.
>
>Somewhere above this term in the license, we need something that says 
>that this doesn't derogate from fair dealing rights to criticise, 
>etc...

I do see your point but this is from the original CC-2.0 license. I think it 
was part of a fudge to keep those of us who wanted to keep a nonattribution 
license happy, or more probably to make sure that your name doesn't appear on 
a porn collection that includes two lines of your work. :-)

>> Allow the use of technological measures ? e.g., digital watermarking 
>> or encryption devices ? to control use of or access to the Work or any 
>> version of it.
>
>I hate DRM as much as the next person, but this is overly broad. If I 
>create a private community for me and my friends to circulate our 
>derived works, and I passowrd-protect it and encrypt its outputs, I'll 
>be in violation of this term. Why do we need this?

This is from the original CC-2.0 . We need it so people can't lock CC content 
behind a DRM barrier, making the license ineffective in practice. This would 
be an example of Lessig's replacement of legal enforcement with technological 
enforcement...

- Rob.