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

[Ray Saintonge]

On 02/23/11 5:10 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
> If that is the case (As I understood this has never yet been tested in
> court, but I would appreciate any links to any jurisprudence, although we
> probably should start a new thread) then the point I tried to make still
> stands: a license should work in every medium. Whether the uploader makes
> restrictions to the applicability of the license does not matter, we should
> just avoid that merely because of the license the work cannot be used in a
> certain medium.

The lack of jurisprudence is often because the costs of litigation far 
exceed the value of the infringement.  Saying that a licence should work 
in every medium is shaky at best.  A spoken version of a written work 
would raise the matter of performance rights.  Extrapolations to other 
media cannot be evaluated without knowing what the new medium is.

Ec