http://cvc.culturedialogue.org/wordpress The site is devoted to the book "Culture vs. Copyright" and possible projects around it. Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://cvc.culturedialogue.org/wordpress/2010/12/authoright-and-licencing/#comment-3 anatoly Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:25:37 +0000 http://cvc.culturedialogue.org/wordpress/?p=610#comment-3 I would like to add two pennies. All open licenses for creative works are based on corresponding copyright laws and when these expire the works fall into public domain. This is commonly considered as right, good for the public end of the copyright "bargain." But what is the legally established concept of the Public Domain? A work in public domain can be used without any reference at all. In fact you can rewrite the Bible word by word and claim to be the author. I mean, such an action would be legally normal, while in reality it would be totally abnormal. This tells us that the legal concept of public domain is as twisted as copyright itself. I can quite safely state that any open license in fact is based on good will of interested parties more than any legal frameworks. I would like to add two pennies. All open licenses for creative works are based on corresponding copyright laws and when these expire the works fall into public domain. This is commonly considered as right, good for the public end of the copyright “bargain.” But what is the legally established concept of the Public Domain? A work in public domain can be used without any reference at all. In fact you can rewrite the Bible word by word and claim to be the author. I mean, such an action would be legally normal, while in reality it would be totally abnormal. This tells us that the legal concept of public domain is as twisted as copyright itself. I can quite safely state that any open license in fact is based on good will of interested parties more than any legal frameworks.

]]> http://cvc.culturedialogue.org/wordpress/2011/01/creator-endorsed-mark/#comment-2 anatoly Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:17:49 +0000 http://cvc.culturedialogue.org/wordpress/?p=629#comment-2 The idea looks very promising. Something like that was proposed on dmca_discuss list long ago--kind of individual acknowledgment that a distributor or a publisher supports the author while an open license wouldn't require such a support. I used the same idea when tried to assemble the Authoright License (<a href="?page_id=62" rel="nofollow">the Addendum</a> in the book on this site), but "Creator-Endorsed" mark seems to be more useful, working for the general idea of Authoright, which, in my view, is ideal correspondence of the license to the nature of culture. If we ever reach or just near this stage in legislature the effect on culture and civilization will be enormous. The idea looks very promising. Something like that was proposed on dmca_discuss list long ago–kind of individual acknowledgment that a distributor or a publisher supports the author while an open license wouldn’t require such a support. I used the same idea when tried to assemble the Authoright License (the Addendum in the book on this site), but “Creator-Endorsed” mark seems to be more useful, working for the general idea of Authoright, which, in my view, is ideal correspondence of the license to the nature of culture. If we ever reach or just near this stage in legislature the effect on culture and civilization will be enormous.

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