On 25 June 2010 23:15, James Alexander <jamesofur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:04 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/ascap-assails-free-culture-digital…
> They're actually gathering money to fight free content.
> We may need to do something about this.
I can at least understand them having issue with EFF
and the like but the
article is right: going against Creative Commons is laughable. How DARE you
decide to release your own content into the public sphere, how DARE YOU! /me
sighs
"Laughable" it may be to us, but they're trying to gather actual
lobbying dollars to block the use of such licences. I do think we need
to say "er, no" nice and early.
- d.