[Foundation-l] Licenses' biodiversity : my big disagreement with the Wikimedia usability initiative's software specifications

[geni]

On 21 February 2011 16:50, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the internet, it is easy to copy the text in small fonts or in a
> collapsible drop-down menu, or if you are lazy, provide a hyperlink to
> 0http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html .

Except the legality of the former is questionable and the latter
almost certainly isn't legal. Nice try though.

> What is more complicated is what happens in a movie theatre. In my
> opinion, the theatre owner should tell the viewers where the movie is
> available for download on the internet.

Look at you. You are stuck in one mode of thinking. Why should a web
based version of the video even exist.

Anyway movies are generally film. I suppose you could provide a frame
by frame set of PNG or tiff files or uncompressed YUV frames but the
file size is going to be slightly unreasonable (run the film through
any commonly used codec and it no longer equivalent).

> Creative Commons licenses also don't address the forgetfulness of a
> slideshow presenter who forgets to upload his slideshow on the
> internet so that everybody can access the digital file and modify it
> for his own use.

Digital file? What on earth makes you think there is a digital file?

> Creative Commons allows to merely perform the work without actually share it.

You would need to have got your hands on the only copy in existence to do that.
-- 
geni