> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lessig's NonCommerical Permission Culture definitely needs tackling.
Here's an article with a fairly good synopsis of where CC has got us today: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/nimustext.html However, I'm not sure whether its authors are demonstrating that CC failed to create an NC commons, or a commons full-stop. I'm worried they may have preferred the former. Two nastinesses: 1) Associating 'Creative Commons' with the author's rightful freedom to choose the liberties they restore to the public. [NB This is a semantic abuse] 2) Associating a 'Creative Commons' as an artistic commonwealth specifically protected against commercial exploitation. [It is enclosure that's wrong, not commerce] All CC has done is to consolidate copyright and to encourage the continuation of the delusion that you can't make money without being able to sell your copyright to a publisher - hence the assumed need for authors to reserve commercial exploitation privileges. CC = Copyright Confused _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
