Jeffrey Peters wrote:
David Gerard,
This list is not for your political advocacy.
Now, stop trolling.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367645363324303.html
The founder of Creative Commons is a very prominent pirate and promoter of
piracy in addition to CC. That has been established for a long time and he
was proud of that fact.
Do I have to request your termination for abuse of this list?
To be fair Lessig was focusing on 30 seconds of distorted background
music in a home movie (which was a fair-use), and the remixing of music
and video to create some mashup which has in itself some creative input.
Lessig is really only concerned with the later issues and has often
stood out against the straight copy. In particular he declined to speak
up for Tenenbaum. “P2P filesharing is wrong and kid’s shouldn’t do it,”
http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/labels-cite-academics-em…
The problem with the mashups is that there is no clear way to license
the different parts, to do so would probably be prohibitively expensive
for the masher upper, and in some cases licenses may well be refused.
Legislators are currently feeling the weight of this themselves as their
campaigns are using mashups and being hit by DMCA takedown notices and
lawsuits by the copyright owners. McCain, DeVore ...
The licensing issue is the thing that needs sorting. A balance has to be
struck between the masher upper and the legitimate claims of the
creators of the works. Some have suggested that the service provider
should be paying a fee for the content hosted.