This Profoundly Disturbs Me

[Bob Schroeck]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud]Corporations and fraudsters alike are stealing from the public domain. 
The section about Creative Commons trying to set itself up as a licensing authority for the public domain particularly upsets me.  Dammit, I respected Creative Commons!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Rev Dark]

Very disturbing; and likely to increase.

[CattyNebulart]

The basic problem with all modern copyright legislation is that there is a large focused and powerfull group that has an interest in expanding copyright as
much as possible. On the counter-side you have a diffuse public good that helps everyone. Guess which side is more motivated and has the more effective
lobbies?

I also doubt that the situation with creative commons is quite as clear cut as the register makes it out to be, the registers reporting on copyright issues has
been ill-informed in the past, I would do some research to find more information. Anyway this thread seems very likely to me to devolve into a politics thread.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

[Sweno]

I'll echo Catty in that I take things that the register says with a grain of skepticism until confirmed by other sources.

I haven't heard moral outrage on this topic from other sources, and I'll refrain from taking up the flag until I do.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[LilFluff]

Ugh. Even before checking to see if Creative Commons had a comment on this I was sure from my own past reading of their licenses that this was inaccurate (at
least the part about Creative Commons trying to seize the public domain for itself). They in fact have a reply to the article at: Copyfraud and CC Ignorance.

To quote the first essential bit, "Creative Commons does not have any "authority to administer" the public domain, whatever that means. Our
public
domain tools are not licenses - there is no "Creative Commons Public Domain License". CC0 is a waiver that allows a copyright holder, to the
extent possible, to release all restrictions on a copyrighted work worldwide."

CC0 actually serves a useful purpose that I can see right away. Any tool that is set up to recognize Creative Commons licenses, if it recognizes the whole
slate, will by it's very nature also recognize the public domain as an option.
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, that's much better. Glad to see it was a single journalist with an axe to grind.

Thanks, LilFluff!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.