On 21 May 2012 20:59, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
We need a shorter term *for free licenses*. Right now those licenses piggyback on an unreasonably long-term notion of "exclusive authorial control of reuse". People who support free knowledge and free licenses should be among the first to do away with that term.
Richard Stallman thinks five years (Swedish Pirate Party) is too short:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
- though he likes ten years:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html
Campaign idea: ask CC to make an O'Reilly-like solution part of their recommended licenses; so that "no, use maximum copyright term" is an opt-in option instead. Unfortunately, Founders Copyright as currently laid out wasn't designed to make that possibility easy... Campaign idea: set up a named class of license for friendly groups like O'Reilly that are committing to 14 years, which are defined by terming out in no more than 14 years to CC0 or equivalent PD declarations.
Founders' Copyright has no buy-in on Commons, which would have been a nice place to start. Offering yet another licence option strikes me as less than ideal ...
But yeah. I'm now envisioning a Hollywood op-ed desperately trying to defend the notion of a whole fourteen years for copyright.
- d.