On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 12:55 +0100, Francis Fish wrote: > Ok, I was trying to make a serious point about something I don't > understand, perhaps I was being provocative, you're a big boy.
You appeared to be very provocative. My apologies if I interpreted you wrong. > > Mock me if you want. You can still give the promotional stuff away, it > just doesn't have to be CC. No, it doesn't have to be CC. CC is just a convenient way to give it away. A bunch of lawyers have written a collection of licenses for you to use. You can choose the one that serves your purposes rather than reinventing the wheel (and hiring your own lawyers). > CC is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. It seems to be some > kind of automatic button that gets pushed for all non-corporate > content and I don't understand why it matters. > Way off topic, I know, but if you have some URL's I can peruse because > I seriously don't understand it, thanks. There are two things here. CC licenses and free culture. CC licenses are useful if you want to grant people more rights than international copyright grants them. As I said above, you choose the one that serves your purposes. In this case, I'm suggesting that giving people the ability to improve Jamie/Paul's training materials is a good thing for everyone (them too) - so I chose a CC license to encourage that, but require people to give back to them. The free culture movement encourages the use of these licenses. A good book on free culture (and why it's important) is Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. It's enjoyable to read and very lucid. It's not a whacked out hippie communist manifesto in disguise - I promise. An excerpt from the introduction: "A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don’t get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can’t get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is filled with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get enforced by the state. But just as a free market is perverted if its property becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism in the property rights that define it. That is what I fear about our culture today. It is against that extremism that this book is written." It's available from bookstores or for a free (though non-commercial) download here: http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/ Hopefully this will be more useful to you than my mocking. John. > -- http://johnleach.co.uk http://www.brightbox.co.uk - UK Ruby on Rails hosting --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
