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Copyright, Fraud and Window Taxes (No, not that Windows)
- cousin_it 18y agoCopying as the tapping point for revenue redistribution, and correct attribution and sourcing as a side-effect of that. Brilliant formulation. I'd note that the attribution requirement needs to be relaxed sometimes, too. It is a well known problem with the CC-BY family of licenses when applied to art. Mark Pilgrim said it well at http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/05/cc-dogs http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/05/cc-dogs : Now imagine that every time you upgraded your kernel and rebooted your Linux box, you had to scroll through 741 lines of credits. 741 _additional_ lines of credits, cumulatively. Creative Commons is fine for one-generation remixing. But you quickly hit a wall, either from data degradation, or cumulatively onerous license requirements, or some other damn thing.