[FC-discuss] Grammy Foundation and Legal Writing competition forLaw Students

[Dana Powers]

is there a rube goldberg prize for copyright licensing proposals?

On 9/20/07, Crosbie Fitch <crosbie at cyberspaceengineers.org> wrote:
>
>
> Believe it or not, but there is a way that authors could be happy to
> transfer copyright of their work to the GRAMMY Foundation, and that is on
> condition that the GF granted the author a CC-SA licence.
>
> 1) The copyright isn't actually worth anything anyway. Who are you going to
> sue?
> 2) The CC-SA licence prevents GF suing the author for the liberties they
> should be able to take with their own work.
> 3) The author doesn't need to suspend anyone's liberty so doesn't need the
> copyright anyway - just the CC-SA.
>
> So, before you get all uppity and think you deserve the copyright, and GF
> should be happy with a non-exclusive license like the CC-SA, why not
> demonstrate where the value lies? Give the GF the unethical copyright, and
> let them give you the licence.
>
> Stop prizing the copyright!
>
> Prize the liberty obtained from its nullification.
>
> Liberty is the right you should prize. Liberty is the right that is
> suspended by copyright. Copyright is a commercial privilege - not a right.
>
> Reserve all of your rights.
> Reject all of your privileges.
>
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