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["David M. Berry" <d.berry AT sussex.ac.uk>]

Hi

Just a quick note that I am happy to pass on a PDF of the article to  
anyone that is interested but I have agreed to withhold further  
online publication until Free Software have had six weeks to  
publicise and hopefully gain more of an audience for their magazine.  
Then they automatically make it CC_BYSA and put it out for free  
download.

If you haven't seen their magazine, its a worthy project that is  
trying really hard to do magazine publishing differently http:// 
www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/

Regards

David






On 22 Jun 2005, at 13:51, Andres Guadamuz wrote:

> David,
>
> I do not have access to the Free Software Magazine article, so I  
> may be
> misunderstanding your argument. Why centre your criticism on CC?  
> Doesn't
> free software rely on copyright as well? Doesn't the entire open  
> licensing
> movement reply on copyright? The exception is the public domain  
> dedication.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cc-uk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:cc-uk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David M. Berry
> Sent: 22 June 2005 13:09
> To: Christian Ahlert
> Cc: cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Cc-uk] CC going mad?
>
>
> Cory
>
> You seem to be saying 'let's have no dissent'. I would argue that  
> we need a
> rich and critical discussion of all activities that Creative  
> Commons gets
> itself into otherwise grave mistakes (like the Bzzz public  
> relations fiasco)
> will be made. A lot of people invest a lot of time and personal  
> work into
> supporting the Creative Commons, and when it starts to act completely
> authoritarian (like the Sampler License rename
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-sampling/2004-August/ 
> thread.html ) or
> even plain dumb (like this), then it is important that it gets  
> critical
> feedback from its supporters as well as its foes.
>
> Maybe this 'joke' works better over there than over here. I don't  
> know. But
> Creative Commons' actions I sometimes find plain conservative and
> reactionary rather than progressive. The dangers with Creative  
> Commons, are
> their tacit acceptance of copyright (indeed their *need* for it)  
> means that
> it can be used as an argument to support copyright extension rather  
> than
> reject it. In other words 'copyright works, just look how CC makes  
> the whole
> thing run smoother, who needs term limitations when stuff can be  
> licensed
> anyway'. To read more of our critique see Free Software Magazine:
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/current_issues/#issue_05
>
> Anyway, it's hardly a firing squad, and hardly in a circle, as clearly
> others agree with you and my remarks have generated lots of  
> contrary debate
> - always a good thing.
>
> ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 22 Jun 2005, at 10:27, Christian Ahlert wrote:
>
>
>         Is it really
>
>         necessary to arrange this firing squad in a circle?
>
>
>
>
>         Cory
>
>
>
>
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