Re: The Politics of Media Distribution (Re: Press Action Hero of the Week

Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> I see d'Aymery's copying policy as more of a way to self-determine the way
> the work at Swans is used and presented.

This is exactly what d'Aymery is doing.  Unfortunately, the publishers and
authors of Swan's are incorrect in thinking they know how to control that use
so as to maximize its effect.  That's why a Free license that provides a
world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, sublicenseable license to
do the following is a Good Thing:

a) to reproduce the Original Work in copies
b) to prepare derivative works based upon the Original Work
c) to distribute copies of the Original and Derivative Works to the public
d) to perform the Original Work publicly
e) to display the Original Work publicly

The Academic Free license does precisely this, for example.

   http://opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.0.php

> From: Gilles d'Aymery <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 18:11:14 -0800
> Subject: Re: [ballistichelmet] Press Action Hero of the Week

> My use of copyright laws has nothing to do with patenting *ideas* or
> *works.*  It has to do with people taking advantage of someone's
> else work for the benefit of their own endeavor -- without even
> crediting the originator.

> People should not, and are not "free" to appropriate [ideas].

This remark and its repetition throughout the response is telling of
d'Aymery's ignorance of the Free Software movement and a misreading of my
comments.  Nowhere did I say people should be free to appropriate work as
originally theirs and without attribution.  Many copyleft licenses include
attribution clauses, eg. the Academic Free License above.  There's also the
Creative Commons attribution license.

   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/
   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/legalcode

David

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