Which we weren’t, Geeklawyer has a beef. WTF is up with ntk? Once a weekly smartarse news sheet, it has shifted to fortnightly and now monthly editions. Entirely unacceptable. Continue reading ‘Talking of humour…’
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John Dvorak is regarded by many as something of a troll. At least that is his what his detractors say. He recently wrote a piece critical of the Creative Commons licence arguing, in essence, that it did nothing useful. In essence his beef was;
- it is a secondary copyright licence,
- it is just trendy posturing by the technorati,
- it would undermine fair use by pretending the CC licence can prevent it,
- it discriminates against commercial use while allowing unfettered non-commercial use,
- One could always ask for a licence to use work anyway — no need for a CC licence,
- The Creative Commons acts as a middleman saying what can and can’t be in the public domain and on what terms,
- Creative Commons adds unnecessary complexity to copyright licensing. Continue reading ‘Dvorak and the creative commons’
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