Justin R Findlay wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:53:53AM -0600, Christopher Phillips wrote: >> The CES organization seems to still be working out many details of what >> their specific policies will be. It is my understanding that some of >> these same issues are being addressed in the Worldwide Church. My >> concern is the extent to which we are being discouraged from using and >> sharing with each other resources that may be copyrighted. It is >> unrealistic to expect the general member of the Church to understand >> the complexities of "fair use" of copyrighted materials or be familiar >> with the process of obtaining a release for use of a copyrighted work >> in a classroom or other limited setting. With that in mind, it may be >> necessary to prohibit the use of good materials legal to use in certain >> situations, simply to avoid any risk of copyright violations. > > Copyright law is seriously b0rk. You have my sympathy for having to > regularly deal with it's insanely restrictive terms.
OTOH, copyright law is the foundation for open source software. It clearly has value when applied correctly. Christopher, I remember a talk at OSCON by Lawrence Lessig where he announced he would begin working on the Creative Commons (although he might not have called it that at the time.) I didn't understand at the time why it mattered, but now I see CC-licensed works all over the place. Authors and artists don't understand the GPL, MIT, or BSD licenses, but they understand CC licenses. That is significant. I'd love to see Church works available under a CC license. In particular, the #1 item I'd like to see under a CC license is sheet music designed for ward choirs. That would be a life saver for ward choir directors. Shane _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
