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TERRIBLE writeup on the Students for Free Culture blog, "Stop the Inclusion of Proprietary Licensess in !CC 4.0" http://ur1.ca/a1fyu
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Why terrible?
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@laurelrusswurm How so?
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@laurelrusswurm s/TERRIBLE/TERRIFIC #regularexpressions
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By removing ND and NC you remove creator choice. It might work if 90% of creative works were released under !CC but we're nowhere near that
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@cwebber the reason !CC has been effective is that creators can choose. How does removing creator choice help?
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@laurelrusswurm removing the sampling licenses helped. Besides, what about the suggestions to rename NC and ND to something not CC?
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@cwebber The point is to get creators on board. If NC and ND aren't !CC, the creators who brave them are unlikely to go further #notCC
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@laurelrusswurm Not a single band? Points to the core problem: lawyers! Their concepts are useful for earning them money. Is !CC just that?
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I 've been observing that ALL the !CC lincences aren't well protected against abuse. Even wikipedia. Always forced 2 pay lawyers to stop it.
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@kuro He eventually named what I think was a very old Canadian band (couldn't find anything abt them online)
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@laurelrusswurm You're making the "gateway drug" argument and !CC itself has no statistics to support that.
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@laurelrusswurm Withdrawing support for something is not force, it's a statement. Anyone can fork a license.
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@dpic No, anyone cannot fork a license. Though !cc is a fabulous success story most of the world has no idea. #explains bad !copyright law
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@dpic you can only fork a license if you know there is such a thing. When everyone you know uses !Copyright All Rights Reserved why bother?
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@greg by non commercial do you mean non-copyright-infringing filesharing?
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@laurelrusswurm should others have a say on what *I* can do with *my* computer, my disk, my printer, my paper, my ink? no, thanks
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@lxoliva I see... your freedom is more important than their freedom. Personally I prefer a future where everyone's freedom is respected.
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@lxoliva There is more chance of achieving that if people are allowed to learn and make their own choices.
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@laurelrusswurm you're (again) confusing freedom and power. I don't want to be subjugated by others' power
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@laurelrusswurm that sounds like a reason to exclude licenses that deny choices
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@laurelrusswurm it's not my *freedom* to decide what you can store on your hard drive; if a law entitles me to it, it's my *power* over you
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@lxoliva excluding licenses that you deem unfree denies others the right to make their own choices.
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@laurelrusswurm Choosing how to use unjust power granted by copyright law is not a matter of freedom. It's choosing how to subjugate people.
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err, that should've been @snapl sorry @bobjonkman
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@dpic Here unjust !copyright law is the default with © "all rights reserved" subjugation enacted by my government regardless of my wishes.
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@dpic what’s your foundation to the naming of copyright as “unjust”? — I’m interested in yours. Mine: http://ur1.ca/9xsyz - german
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@laurelrusswurm like they couldn't come up with the license wording on their own? you mean CC is *forced* to work for them?
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@lxoliva why can’t they just keep offering licenses for content I am allowed to send to my friends, even though not change?
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@lxoliva *I* don’t like stuff I cannot change, but I prefer stuff I can pass on to stuff I cannot.
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@arnebab of course they can! I just think they shouldn't, for such works are not in the commons, thus betraying the goal
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@arnebab maybe offer such ND licenses from Creative Museum or so; can transition to commons when old enough ;-)
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@lxoliva I think the NC licenses are pretty important. IIRC Steve Losh started with BY-NC-ND and now simply uses BY.
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@arnebab People who have thought about copyright reform for years are annoyed the rest of the world has not caught up; they want change NOW.
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because of the confusion for one. and the wasted time. and the extra difficulty of search. and more.
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and? they are happy to deny the world their rightful Freedom. plus, there are other non-Free licenses and the fracture does no harm.
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i say the fracture does no harm as the Free and the non-Free CC licenses are not a part of the same commons in the first place.
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the other side was quite happy to force copyright on all works, marked or not.
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we do that now in countries where slavery is illegal. shall we go back and start respecting peoples freedom to become slaves and to own them
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@zotz Do you really lose time? For me it’s very nice to see a CC footer: I see directly which rights I have. Much better than before…
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@kuro what on earth are you talking about? @professorkliq @davidrovics and others don't need lawyers to deal with CC. That's the whole point of CC.
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or at a *minimum* to create a FreeCC brand that the Freedom folks can promote without confusion. been asked for for years.
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@zotz The freedom is already denied.
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@zotz It would do extraordinary harm because the rest of the world is just beginning to hear about Creative Commons.
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@zotz that is the reality NOW. Creators considering switching from © "all rights reserved" are more likely to with NC and/or ND.
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way too much time. sign up for kompoz, go about your daily business as if you were only interested in Free works, see how much extra effort
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fine but perhaps because they can still get the good CC buzz/vibes while not making the commitment to Freedom. separate the brands at least.
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they would still hear about CC. and perhaps the Free software folks would feel better promoting the brand too. extra push.
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@zotz And I bet @rms or somebody would quibble with "free software (popularly marketed as “open source software”)" http://ur1.ca/a1fyu
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@arnebab nobody's arguing they should retroactively cease to exist. they just don't belong in a commons
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@zotz freelcommons anyone? :-)
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@laurelrusswurm One problem with having so many CC licenses is that they make searching tedious. Often we need BY or BY-SA or PD.
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@laurelrusswurm And unless we're using the CreativeCommons search engine, we have no good way to get the appropriate search filter. :-(
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@dper searching where?
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@dper there are a mere SIX !cc licenses but *12* Creative Commons Search Tabs http://search.creativecommons.org/ :P
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@laurelrusswurm Anywhere. Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, Google, wherever. Append "Creative Commons" and get a mix of CC results, some useless.
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@laurelrusswurm Yes. I particularly like the check boxes: (1) use for commercial purposes and (2) modify, adapt, or build upon.
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@dper I don't know what you are looking for specifically, but Jamendo, FMA, flickr and others have searches by license.
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@douglasawh I'm not looking for anything. I'm saying one complaint about NC and ND is that for naive search engines, they clutter results.
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@dper I dont think CC should be making policy decisions based on websites that don't know how to build an appropriate metadata system.
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@douglasawh Sok with me. Just wanted to highlight a problem many of us often have with NC and ND. Blame it on whoever you like. :-)
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@dper I remain disappointed google is the only serach engine with licensed-for-reuse image search
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@laurelrusswurm not me. Good change will take a very long time. NC/ND nice example of wanting little bit NOW to detriment of long term.
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@csolisr by far the most useful dent in these giant threads. Congratulations! :-)
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@dper not at Wikimedia Commons; it excludes nonfree. Also if you search via search.creativecommons.org free checkboxes preselected.
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@lxoliva I think they are already making a nice distinction there by saying “they are the commons, but not free culture”.
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@lxoliva going further would likely divide our community quite badly and keep people away who start with NC and leave it out later
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@zotz The main effort for me is finding works with cc licenses at all. After that, most sites have nice selectors.
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@zotz for me CC is a way for the artist to say “you may do this” and for the user to say “I only want to see what I can use”.
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@arnebab what kind of commons is it when the cow can't turn the grass into milk, or the milk can't be sold?
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kompoz does too but the filter is only applied during search, it needs to be applied during site use, I don't want to encounter non-Free
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look at the staff picks on the front page. can't tell which are Free. for that you must click on each one then scroll down & look. wastetime
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and for the deriving artist. but it needs to be a site filter, not a search filter.
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also, write ups often just say the movie is available under a cc license and then give a link. you have to follow the link to see. wastetime
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full ack. I’d love to have a Firefox-Extension which grays out all sites which do not have a free license.
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A standard to define the license (I assume that exists), which gets used by FF. Maybe even for links (check target, unfree → Gray)
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something like libreJS, but for the content.
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good but still an issue as many sites with Free licenses link to works that are not Free.
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better...
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or show a green ❤ or golden ★ behind every link which goes to a free licensed page - similar to what Sone in !Freenet does. !cc
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would be nice to have an option like this. wonder how much it would slow down page rendering?
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linking to other sites cannot be prevented without limiting free speech → that’s a step I am not willing to take.
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but having my browser notify me that the link would bring me to an unfree page if I clicked it would be nice.
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I think it would not slow down the rendering, since the ❤ or ★ can simply be added after rendering - if need be by Javascript.
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@arnebab there's a <meta name="copyright"...> tag http://ur1.ca/a1m37 #html
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my comment was more in the direction of your browser plugin idea. not to in any way prevent linking.
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exactly, so you would not waste your time with the looking if you were on a search for Free at the time.
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and they are happy to keep denying it instead of trying to reverse it as best they can. (I do get your argument re baby steps though)
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meta tags are dreadful for that: I can’t just add them from a CMS - or rather disable… (but I’ll remember it for my homepage)
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is there a standard way to mark a website as GPL or CC-by-sa? Which is supported by tools?
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ah, yes, the standard way is http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/link <head>…<link rel="license" href="/gpl.txt">…</head>
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so now we only need tools which parse the license link to be able to see if content is free. Better would be using the HTML5 <link title=…>
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wish: tool sees <head>…<link rel="license" title="cc by-sa" href="…by-sa…">…</head> ⇒ marks site as free culture (also gpl and cc by).
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@arnebab getting people to add metadata reliably and accurately...CC has been trying for 10 years. Uphill, tiny part of overall solution.
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I actually think the marking in-browser - and ideally in-search-engine - would be huge: Allowing fans to find it quickly.
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we could crawl the web with yacy and only add free licensed pages to the index.
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@arnebab that's a great mass curation idea. very different from publishers adding metadata.
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@mlinksva for example @zotz would be a fan you only get by marking your content free, so marking content gives a competitive edge
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actually for marking, meta tags are pretty problematic, because you can’t just put them into a blog post.
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and as much as I dislike Facebook: it would be nice if those users had a way to label stuff as CC, too. Without support from FB.
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so parsing meta tags could only be a start. Longterm, the software would have to parse the site to find the license deed (<a rel…)
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@laurelrusswurm I support your criticising of abolishing choice of -nc and -nd in !cc 4.0 licence draft
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and to make that tool universal again, we need that deed style for the GPL, too…
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@arnebab deed style irrelevant, just need stable identifier, which is http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
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@arnebab CC skipped meta tags quickly for that reason. See links in http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_REL for background.
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@laurelrusswurm - I proposed at least condensing NC/ND into a single term - http://fsmsh.com/3461 - from Nov. 2010.
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not just a fan, a promoter perhaps, and a supporter perhaps as well. and possibly a collaborator or a source for material as well. #BYSA
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@zotz similar to what I am for the folks from Battle for Wesnoth ( wesnoth.org ). I use their GPL images in a GPL RPG ( 1w6.org )
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Thank you @kuro :)
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Bingo. some of my stuff: http://ur1.ca/6oy47 http://ur1.ca/a1sq5 http://ur1.ca/a1sq6
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@digitante I don't think that will help; separating and defining the various restrictions is actually educational for !cc noobs :)
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@zotz nice!
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did you see: http://ur1.ca/a1scs yet?
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@laurelrusswurm Not if the restrictions are indistinct, ineffective, or redundant -- which is what I argued - http://is.gd/6Dg0hX
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@laurelrusswurm Even more pernicious for !CC "noobs" is the false idea that the "SA" in "By-SA" and the "SA" in "By-NC-SA" are the same
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@digitante I have never before read of SA confusion of SA. Still, compared to copyright law, !cc licenses are crystal clear.
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@digitante what is difficult about !cc licenses to the noob is the idea that there can be anything besides copyright. New ideas take time.
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@laurelrusswurm NC+SA has a completely different (and non-intuitive) effect compared to SA by itself.
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@digitante ... my point is that !cc is non-intuitive after hundreds of years of copyright propaganda. Most believe copyright is a RIGHT.
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@laurelrusswurm NC+SA block exactly one use case of NC which is conversion to By-NC-ND (i.e. the derivative can block derivatives)
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@digitante And it's highly unlikely that anyone using NC actually intends that -- that should be folded into NC.
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@digitante Clearly, this is not the way you choose to license your work. But all the !cc licenses are restrictive. Even !CC by
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well, yes and not as many of the words in them have meaning based on copyright law and not on english/whatever natural language you use.
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well, yes and no as many of the words in them have meaning based on copyright law and not on english/whatever natural language you use.
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@kuro That reasonable since that is how !copyright has always worked, with enforcement being up to the rightsholder and !cc is built on ©
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@arnebab It is difficult to share free !cc photos (getting indexed to come up in free !cc search) anywhere outside Flickr
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@arnebab I tag everything !cc in my Tumblr photo blog, but nothing seems to help index for external search
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We should note that @freeculture was making more of a critique of @creativecommons tactics than of their licenses http://www.ur1.ca/aagmn