[Upd-discuss] On the 'Creative Commons': A Critique of the Commons without Commonalty

[sandor]

Another summary, actually - an excerpt.

"We argue that the Creative Commons project on the whole fails to
confront and look beyond the logic and power asymmetries of the
present. It tends to conflate how the world is with what it could be, with
that we might want to be."



Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>This article's criticism of Creative Commons can be summarized in a
>few words.  Creative Commons suggests to copyright holders that they
>exercise their power more gently, but it does not criticize the system
>which gives them that power.  It does not recommend any decrease in
>the power that copyright holders are given.
>
>The article suffers from its use of the term "intellectual property".
>This term lumps copyright law together with patent law (and other
>laws), the result being a blurry confusion.  The effects of copyright
>law come from the details of the restrictions it places on the public.
>Patent law imposes totally different requirements, and it's irrelevant
>to the issue of copying and modifying creative works.  Bringing it
>into the discussion where it is irrelevant is part of the problem of
>the term "intellectual property".
>
>See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml for more explanation
>about this.
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