On 21 May 2012 20:59, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > We need a shorter term *for free licenses*. > Right now those licenses piggyback on an unreasonably long-term notion > of "exclusive authorial control of reuse". > People who support free knowledge and free licenses should be among > the first to do away with that term.
Richard Stallman thinks five years (Swedish Pirate Party) is too short: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html - though he likes ten years: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html > Campaign idea: ask CC to make an O'Reilly-like solution part of their > recommended licenses; so that "no, use maximum copyright term" is an > opt-in option instead. Unfortunately, Founders Copyright as currently > laid out wasn't designed to make that possibility easy... > Campaign idea: set up a named class of license for friendly groups > like O'Reilly that are committing to 14 years, which are defined by > terming out in no more than 14 years to CC0 or equivalent PD > declarations. Founders' Copyright has no buy-in on Commons, which would have been a nice place to start. Offering yet another licence option strikes me as less than ideal ... But yeah. I'm now envisioning a Hollywood op-ed desperately trying to defend the notion of a whole fourteen years for copyright. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
