On 27 February 2014 22:56, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is the essential point of the problem:
- Commons has a long-running attitude of absolute copyright paranoia,
so that no reuser will ever be put in legal danger. This is extremely unlikely to change, and particularly not with what the Commons community perceive as outside intruders (rather than e.g. its main users) coming in to question it.
Not true. If anything commons copyright policy tends towards the legally aggressive. A lot of that involves finding and exploiting loopholes. However the other side of that involves obeying copyright law to the letter. Its far easier to defend the edge cases if we have a solid record of respecting the law as it stands at this present time.
Now if someone could get the US to follow the law of the shorter term that would simplify things somewhat.