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["Ian Brockbank" <ian AT scottishdance.net>]

Hi Tom,

> Ahoy,
> 
> I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on Orlowski's 
> claims that CC is 
> redundant because:
> 
> - people remix and what have you anyway
> - original works are more important (easy to debunk)
> - it just creates complicated mechanisms for what already happens
> 
> Are we caught up in our own dystopian hysteria, or do we 
> really need CC as a 
> bulwark against encroachments on creativity? Is CC a clumsy 
> legal mechanism 
> that obscures more fluid social practices?

I use CC for the Scottish Country Dances I write.  What I like about it is
that it gives me a standard mechanism for saying "you can dance/perform
and copy these as much as you like for your non-profit use [e.g. ball
programmes], but please acknowledge me and don't republish them for profit".

Cheers,

Ian Brockbank
Edinburgh, Scotland
ian AT scottishdance.net
http://www.scottishdance.net/