CC announces the 4.0 process for their new licenses. And it basically looks great. The one exception is the revaluation of the database stuff. The language about not making this works is wise and smart, but it's also going pretty hard to imagine how they could walk that line. The situation now is CC zero for data, or nothing. Anything CC does is going to make that situation worse.
The most interesting part, I think, is that the porn industry is actively involved in copyright litigation. I have often held them up as an example of an industry who didn't have litigation as an option and, as a result, had to be more creative.
This has been online for quite some time. I'm really surprised I haven't found this before.
Yikes. I guess I'll think twice before I buy a bunch of software. ;)
Nice overview of the contributor agreement/copyright assignment discussion.
Interesting blog post about the difficulty of chasing up old copyright licenses.
A whole country (albeit not a very big one) goes in for compulsory licenses for music.
