On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 21:24 -0500, Bob Wyman wrote: > I realize that this is a bit more wordy than the existing text, > however, I think it better perserves the author's intent. Also, it has > the nice attribute of limiting the discussion of "obligations" to the > scope of rights granted by the licenses -- not rights that might exist > in the absence of the license. Nothing we do should encourage people > to use in-feed or in-entry data to restrict rights which exist > independent of an explicit license grant. Such rights may include > fair-use rights, the right to create backups, the implied right to > syndicate, etc. As with Creative Commons licenses, I believe our goal > here should be to provide mechanisms to expand the rights granted -- > not to restrict them. > I agree with Bob's suggested change.
Draft 10 is looking very good from my perspective. > -- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer
