is there a rube goldberg prize for copyright licensing proposals?
On 9/20/07, Crosbie Fitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Believe it or not, but there is a way that authors could be happy to > transfer copyright of their work to the GRAMMY Foundation, and that is on > condition that the GF granted the author a CC-SA licence. > > 1) The copyright isn't actually worth anything anyway. Who are you going to > sue? > 2) The CC-SA licence prevents GF suing the author for the liberties they > should be able to take with their own work. > 3) The author doesn't need to suspend anyone's liberty so doesn't need the > copyright anyway - just the CC-SA. > > So, before you get all uppity and think you deserve the copyright, and GF > should be happy with a non-exclusive license like the CC-SA, why not > demonstrate where the value lies? Give the GF the unethical copyright, and > let them give you the licence. > > Stop prizing the copyright! > > Prize the liberty obtained from its nullification. > > Liberty is the right you should prize. Liberty is the right that is > suspended by copyright. Copyright is a commercial privilege - not a right. > > Reserve all of your rights. > Reject all of your privileges. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
