On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Anthony wrote:
> Are you strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual property"? Vote
for
> the change.
>
I don't see how this is warranted. As it stands the TOS proposed
is certainly semantically confusing, but hardly in stark opposition
to intellectual property. In fact Lawrence Lessig is on record as
stating taht CC licenses *depend* on intellectual property rights,
even if their purport is to maximally facilitate unlimited re-use, and
keeping the content in play for re-use.
How would you suggest someone strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual
property" should vote, then? Considering that the main proponent of the
proposal, Erik Moeller, is strongly opposed to all types of "intellectual
property", it seems like a given that someone else who feels similarly
should vote in favor of the move.
> Do you
believe that the right to attribution is a fundamental natural
right
> which is held by individuals and cannot be
alienated by majority vote?
Vote
> against the change, or refuse to vote at
all.
>
Now this is just simply beyond the pale. You know full well that the
license as such is implicitly BY.
The proposal contains much more than just a switch to CC-BY-SA, it also
includes language interpreting CC-BY-SA in a way which indisputably changes
the form of attribution required.