A whole country (albeit not a very big one) goes in for compulsory licenses for music.
Interesting blog post about the difficulty of chasing up old copyright licenses.
Take Blackduck's results with a giant fist full of salt, but do look at these trends.
The last part of this article is crap. Open Access already has a standard license and it's BY-SA. Suggesting BY-NC-ND is regressive. Academics have strong standards already against derivative works. The only market for academic publications is a bizarre artificial one that, honestly, both scholars are being exploited by. Neither NC nor ND is solving real problems. If we're going to suggest standardization, lets have it be on what we really want as opposed to what we might be able to live with.
Interesting exploration of dual licensing of free software and their effects.
"Trying to shift the burden of proof back onto themselves, I asked why they don't contribute to the open-source projects from which they derive so much value. Many indicated that it's too hard to contribute back to open-source projects due to internal legal issues and the high bar to knowing how to contribute. They suggested that they would instead prefer to pay the open-source companies to do that work for them."
This has been online for quite some time. I'm really surprised I haven't found this before.
Image of printer dots from a Mass license. They've been decoded to the serial number.
This is a well thought out position on a very complicated question. I've talked to RMS about this before so I basically understood his position but it's very helpful to walk through the logic here. I think I mostly agree with him.
