-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fred Benenson wrote: > 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. >
To propose a more concrete "copyright reform," trying to avoid confusion: Let fair use make every use fair except publishing (a transformation of) an open source work without distributing the corresponding source code with it. This isn't abolishing copyright, but that's not (I think) what people were advocating. People were advocating abolishing the monopolies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5KP46THm0ATXcbwRApOpAKCYx/ypLL+cJXIGoGZF408SBmCCnwCcDLOG wKcTbNPqwbkr02B+FlgVA1w= =eSpB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
