Thus spake "Jean-Christophe Helary" <[email protected]> on 10/7/12 12:16 AM:
>The only part that I found missing, and that's strange after all the >discussions about diagram use and copyright infringement that we've been >having here, is an attempt at standardizing a set of licenses that the >designer could (should) choose from before putting a diagram online. >I write "should" because for example, there is no indication about what >Yash Mittal wants us to be able to do with his work, and _that_ should be >compulsory, *because* we don't want copyright infringement to happen. Sellers are encouraged in the guidelines to put their desired licensing terms in their product descriptions. Yash has chosen not to do that. It may or may not result in an outcome that he doesn't like, but it's his choice as a seller/author. (If he doesn't like the outcome, he can change his mind in the future.) >With that in mind, if we could try to define what would be potential >limit options to what the user does with the diagram we'd have a good >framework to create standard licenses that pertain to origami and its >specificities and we'd be in a better position to reshape the debate on >origami works use. I'd mentioned several weeks back that one of OrigamiUSA's website-related goals was to set up a rightsowner directory that basically provided an easy way to find out what sorts of licensing terms artists wished on their work. There would be existing licenses to choose from (as well as some free-form entry for authors whose choices didn't fit the standard ones.) Once it's in place, we could also, I think, link to products in The Source, even existing products (like file downloads already being sold). Several readers of this list volunteered to assist with this project, but it's still in the queue to get going. The main reason it's not going yet is that it needs active involvement of the (volunteer) OrigamiUSA web team, who have been a little booked up lately (did I mention that we have a file download store?). But I expect it will rev up in the coming several weeks. Robert
