29 Apr 2012 18:24
Disclaimers for works of opinion as an incentive to free licensing
Several authors in the free software movement (most particularly the members of the FSF) are reluctant to use DFCW licensing (CC-BY-SA, or CC-BY) because, in that way, their works of opinion could be freely modified by others, which could be used to distort their opinions [1]. However, despite of the obvious reason for their decision, such a position has been perceived as incongruent by free culture advocates [2]. A way to be able to freely license a work, while guaranteeing that the integrity of the authors of opinion works and their ideas is upheld, should be of great concern for the following versions of CC-BY-SA licenses. My idea to do it would be to add a mandatory disclaimer for derivative CC-BY-SA works of opinion that states whether the derivative work has been stated by the original author to be in the spirit of the original work or not. In the negative case, the derivative work must clearly state that the derivative work's ideas are solely from the author of the derivative work, not necessarily from the original author. [1]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpinionLicenses [2]: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/04/rantifesto/ - Carlos Solís _______________________________________________ List info and archives at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses Unsubscribe at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/cc-licenses In consideration of people subscribed to this list to participate in the CC licenses http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0 development process, please direct unrelated discussions to the cc-community list http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community
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