[FC-discuss] Free Thesis Project Released Today

[Fred Benenson]

If you're interesting in abdicating all rights of/to copyright (using not
license at all), I suggest you read up on the Public Domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain

Creative Commons also has a Public Domain dedication process:

http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en

Would you consider everyone releasing their work under PD "cult-like"?
Everyone releasing into PD is just as "weird" a systemization as CC-BY.
Just because a particular form of licensing / publishing has a strong
following is no reason to abandon it.


F




On 5/6/07, Matthew Z <matt at mjzhosting.net> wrote:
>
> On 5/4/07, Elizabeth Stark <estark at law.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > (2) We clarified that students keep the copyright to their thesis at
> > our school. We thought, why not encourage them to license their theses
> > freely? As such, our repository currently requires that uploaders
> > agree to license it CC BY, the same license used by PLoS.
>
>
> This is the weird systematization that I'm talking about. Is there
> actually a choice present to use anything other than "CC BY" or should
> everyone be sent through the same filter? It's cult-like. What about the
> choice of not using any licence at all?
>
> Matt
>
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