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.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain
</a><br><br>Creative Commons also has a Public Domain dedication process:<br><br><a href="http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en">http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en</a><br><br>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.
<br><br><br>F<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Z</b> <<a href="mailto:matt@mjzhosting.net">matt@mjzhosting.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 5/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Elizabeth Stark</b> <<a href="mailto:estark@law.harvard.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">estark@law.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:
</span><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>(2) We clarified that students keep the copyright to their thesis at<br>our school. We thought, why not encourage them to license their theses<br>freely? As such, our repository currently requires that uploaders<br>agree to license it CC BY, the same license used by PLoS.
</blockquote></span><div><br>This is the weird systematization that I'm talking about. Is there actually a <span style="font-style: italic;">choice</span> 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?
<br><br>Matt<br></div></div><br>
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