Though I am not a lawyer, my feeling is that any copyleft licenses will essentially loose it's ability to be enforced if copyright doesn't exist. This is because that as soon as someone violates the terms of a license (whether it is GPL or CC), the license is immediately terminated and the user is then liable for copyright infringement: this is the leverage the original author has over anyone who uses her work when it is used in terms outside of those of the original license.
Abolishing copyright seems to then implicate a contractual based system, where various copyleft licenses exist as contracts and not as gateways to potential copyright infringement. Contracts are a much messier place to be in and puts the original author on much less secure ground... Think Asheesh has a point about this too. F On 2/27/07, Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fred Benenson wrote: > Indeed, Public Library of Science, and a lot of > other open access journals all depend on Creative Commons (and in turn, > copyright) for licensing of their works. Attribution is a good thing to protect. I believe an attribution requirement is an acceptable restriction on use. Copyleft (sharealike) is a good thing to protect, as well. If there is no serious disagreement about this (I don't expect any) we can assume a copyright "nullification" to leave intact optional enforcement of attribution and/or copyleft requirements. With this amendment on copyright "nullification," a nullification is sufficient to sustain all these great projects. The only thing that depends on copyright are additional, more controversial restrictions on use. None of these are necessary to sustain open access. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5J7M6THm0ATXcbwRAu2mAJ4hmaPXZfETJWMSwX/XKeeSnphuFgCgxeY4 i1z2bWXjZHeMxhVBCGgod0A= =sufK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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