On 2/27/07, Fred Benenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not that CC shouldn't make the tool that facilitates ToT, it's that > authors shouldn't revoke their work from the world. It then seems like we > should be blaming the authors, not neutral legal tools, for revoking access > to their work.
I suspect that many authors lack a complete understanding of copyright. This is due - at least, in part - to the obtuse nature of legal literature. In this case, Creative Commons enables and empowers authors to become well-informed by providing tools to clarify the broad monopoly conferred them by copyright. Our mandate must be to provide compelling reasons for authors to choose free culture. We can do this most effectively with examples of authors finding success (broadly defined) in the commons. There are a couple very visible examples in Firefox and Wikipedia but we need more. Of course, should well-informed authors continue to choose restrictive copyright schemes, we will need to regroup and strategize. Kevin -- http://kevindriscoll.info/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
