[ubuntu-in] WHY CC Licensing is not a good idea (Was Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range)

[Onkar Shinde]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM, AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lawrence Lessig is, like all lawyers - an extremely tiresome
> and misleading person. Copyleft and Copyright are absolutely
> redundant notions in today's day and age of mechanical
> and effortless digital reproduction.

I don't know how Lawrence Lessig is as a person. I have never
communicated with him via any mean. But as founder of CC, I have
respect for him.
It is the CC license (specifically CC-BY-SA), that allows distribution
include the artwork created by community.

> There are only two kinds of media now - CopyCan & CopyCan't.
> If you can copy it, it's a CopyCan license, if you can't copy it,
> learn some crypto...dude.
>

As of now there is almost no CopyCan't media in existence. Even the
AACS protection used by Blue-Ray/HD-DVD has been circumvented.


Onkar