"This is an imperfect world and we need to be pragmatic."
You just restated the exact same thing I said in a different way.
"Why on Earth would you presume this?"
I'm not presuming anything. I'm speaking from my experience talking about
licensing with poor artists (particularly musicians), people in my own social
circles, and people I've spoken to as part of my work as a community
developer for CC Aotearoa/ NZ. Also, I'm a poor artist! I'm a professional
volunteer who struggles by on scraps of paid work supplemented by welfare. I
put NC licenses on my own work:
http://strypey.dreamwidth.org/
If another poor artist approached me wanting to use my work in a commercial
project, I'd be thrilled to collaborate. If a well-funded publishing company
wanted to use my work in a collection of short stories, I would be thrilled,
and would ask for a more generous commercial royalty.
"Poor artists don't make art and then put non-commercial clauses on them.
Licensing is a question that only middle-class and well-off people have the
luxury to consider. The poor artist is too busy working actual jobs to go on
a crusade against capitalism.
You, on the other hand, make all sorts of presumptions, which say more about
your own class perspective and ideological fixations, than they do about the
realities of being a poor artist.
As mentioned in my last comment, it's become very clear to me that your
motive for participating in these threads is to troll for attention, and get
a weird kick out of knocking other people's initiatives. From now on, unless
you have something constructive to say, I will be ignoring your comments.
