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Re: [Fsfe-uk] 'creative industries' launch
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MJ Ray |
Subject: |
Re: [Fsfe-uk] 'creative industries' launch |
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:02:39 +0100 |
On 2004-07-20 22:54:18 +0100 Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote:
[...] On the other hand, we might find some way into a member
organisation, The Digital Content Forum: "Full membership of DCF is
open to
trade associations and representative bodies with a vested interest
in the
digital content sector."
Is this worth doing, or will it lead to us being seen as "co-opted by
the IP policers"? Do you know how CDR view this?
[...] push a positive agenda of meeting the challenges of the digital
environment with innovative licensing schemes. In other words, push
things
like Free Software, the BBC's Creative Archive and Creative Commons
as
answers not altogether opposed to, but rather complementing
"traditional"
schemes.
What do people think?
Good general idea, but be careful. While we could all agree on Free
Software being wonderful, the others have dangers for promoting them
yet. While CC licences like the CC-GPL are clearly fine, I think the
most popular CC BY and BY-SA licences have small problems with them
and are also often applied incorrectly.
The BBC Creative Archive is still being formed and we don't know what
shape it will take, so don't promote it too strongly until decisions
are taken. Even our friends don't argue for free software as much as I
expected, so free software supporters need to comment in reply to
invitations and consultations about the archive. I'd appreciate
hearing about any opportunities to do this, as I'm not a particularly
keen BBC watcher (as the cycling is on Eurosport... oh wait, that's
not what I meant).
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