[Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

[David Gerard]

2009/9/7 Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Geoffrey Plourde<geo.plrd at 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.