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

[Teofilo]

2011/2/21 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
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>> 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.

The yet to be written Free Video License might say that this
requirement applies only in the case when the original creator first
released the first version on the internet.
Alternative ways of providing the original version might be allowed
with a wording similar to that of GFDL for transparent copies : offer
to send them by traditional mail, at a reasonable cost.


> 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?

I was thinking about a Powerpoint presentation.