[FC-discuss] Grammy Foundation and Legal Writing competitionf orLaw Students

[Crosbie Fitch]

> From: Dana Powers
> is there a rube goldberg prize for copyright licensing proposals?

When you're fighting with a cookie monster over your cookie jar containing
your magic, infinitely reproducible cookies, it is probably going to be
easier to let the monster keep the full jar as usual and ask for perhaps,
just one weeny li'l cookie.

I'm trying to point out that the thing that is most valuable is the licence
to liberty, not the privilege to suspend it.

You are going to understand this apparently challenging insight far more
readily than your typical copyright brain-washed numbskull at the GRAMMY
Foundation.

And of course, if they don't have any such numbskulls, well, you've nothing
to worry about anyway.

Incidentally, if you still think this is the more convoluted way of doing
things, check the procedure out:

1) Author writes article
2) Auther automatically obtains copyright (not being a work for hire)
3) Author writes themselves a CC-SA licence
4) Author makes licenced copy of their work
5) Work still remains private and unpublished
6) Author submits original article (without prior publication)
7) Author asserts transfer of copyright to GRAMMY Foundation
8) Cookie monster happy - has cookie jar and 99 magic cookies
9) Author has liberty - has 1 magic cookie
10) GRAMMY Foundation publishes copies of works and sues anyone who copies
them
11) Author publishes copy of work - as permitted by licence - and doesn't
sue anyone (who in turn, published their own copies, etc.)

Of course, it would be best if the author threw their copyright into Mount
Doom the moment they got it, but when you're up against deluded cookie
monsters intent on world cookie domination, one may be obliged to humour
them.