Comments on: Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of the Lessig’ Creative Commons license https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dmytri-kleiners-critique-of-the-lessig-creative-commons-license/2006/10/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Sam Rose https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dmytri-kleiners-critique-of-the-lessig-creative-commons-license/2006/10/09/comment-page-1#comment-5265 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:34:32 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=493#comment-5265 I agree with your conclusion Michel. I think that the only realistic way to expect some people to participate in building a Creative Commons is to give them the option to voluntarily contribute.

I believe that the decision should be up to the creator to control how their conent enters the “free common stock”. I think that it is up to advocates of commons-based economies (like myself) to create models that make releasing to a free commons a desireable option for people. It almost appears that Kleiner is suggesting that we somehow outlaw, or change the law to prevent content producers from controlling how the conent they created is re-used. This doesn’t seem necassary. And, it likely wouldn’t plausibly happen in the US any way

The direction of Creative Commons licenses are a far more realistic track for creating real change. Real and useable models are emerging around the CC suite of licenses, and they are starting to become universally accepted.

For instance people can split all profits with “investors� (even time investors) and put a timed release from CC BY-NC-SA License to BY-SA when expenses are recouped double or X years, which ever comes first. (Where X is 2 to 10 years).

And, there are models that allow for CC BY-SA (which allows for commercial re-use right away), that still allow people to create profit or wealth-creating enterprises around the content.

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