Free Music License?
Bernhard Reiter
bernhard at intevation.de
Wed Aug 17 11:03:52 UTC 2005
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:33:29PM +0200, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote:
> I was thinking that the differentiation between functional and
> non-functional was easy. But working on various projects, I found that
> is not the case following the evolution of usage and distribution of
> "digital object".
It might be difficult, but that does not mean it cannot be done.
> If we want to keep them free, the right of
> modification is very important...
I agree, but there are limit where the compromise in the other
direction actually helps the freedom in the society.
> A nice example is digital
> archiving. In digital archiving, you have to protect the data and
> meaning of the data. If we take into consideration just the data
> (without the meaning) it's already difficult to keep free a work
> without making modification (because conversion is often (always?)
> modification in digital format).
We could consider a mere transformation just that and not a modification.
> A lot of non-functional work has a functional description behind.
Can you give an example for this?
> Can we disallow modification of "non-functional" free work ? or does the
> separation make sense today ?
>
> {For me, the questions are still open...}
You to throw the motivations of the authors into the ring.
Each bit of information needs to be written or assembled which is effrot.
If we want quality works we need to compensate for this effort.
I remember an article that claimed that around in the French revolution,
copyright was completely abandoned and the quality of publications went down
significantly. Unfortunately I do not have the reference on this one.
It was a few years ago.
> > Keeping a single license, that is applied to everything, will only
> > hurt the community in the long run.
>
> Making new "virtual" boundaries between digital free works will limit
> their current and future usage.
If the aim is: How do we bring in more freedom into a human and
democratic world, we can make different compromises.
I think that categories will help the process a lot more
than burning all copy-rights on the same bonfire,
like legislators tend to do.
To make realistic suggestions for the politicians,
we need to accept that many people accept the idea of economic reward.
Bernhard
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