2009/9/7 Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Geoffrey
Plourde<geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Commons Force proposal represents a clear and
present danger, both for whoever hosts it and participates in it. It is not for a third
party to intervene in a contract between two people and only two people.
This kind of attitude seems to me to be a byproduct of
the fact that,
despite being intended to help fix the flaws in the copyright system,
Creative Commons and other free licenses are "hacks" that are built on
top of copyright. The construction of CC licenses as contracts
between copyright owner and user is part of the hack, but not
necessarily ideal for promoting a robust creative commons (in the
lower case, general sense).
Indeed. Geoffrey fails to appreciate that a CC violation really is
everyone's business.
- d.