On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Pharos <[email protected]> wrote:

> We might benefit, though, from a rebranding of
> NonCommercial, but probably not to something as bare and harsh as
> "CommercialMonopoly".
>

The suggestion that's been tossed around the cc-licenses list is
"Commercial Rights Reserved." I think that covers the meaning better than
NonCommercial, and would do more to avoid the use of the license by people
who are trying to avoid commercial use altogether.


> On the other hand, I think a much better case can be made for retiring
> the NoDerivaties license, which only partakes of the commons in the
> vaguest of senses.


I think I have the same reaction to this proposal as you do to the other. I
think in order to make this argument you have to be completely comfortable
with either (a) there is no "legitimate" use for a license that permits
verbatim reproduction but no more, or (b) Creative Commons as an
organization should not be the one to maintain that license. I can't really
get behind either of those statements.

(Especially, thinking more about (a), because the alternative in many cases
to a -ND license is ARR.)


> The primary 'legitimate' users of this license are
> archives and cultural institutions, who are concerned about issues
> like provenance and curatorial integrity, so if we do retire this
> license, we should accompany that retirement with some enhanced
> gadget-like attribution functionality designed to meet the needs of
> this community.
>

I'm all about more attribution gadgets.

Thanks,
Parker

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