Re: UK Creative Economy conference

On 10/15/05, a.wise <a.wise[_at_]pls.org.uk> wrote:
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> * There was a recognition that all these new forms of licensing are not
> an alternative to copyright but are based on it and supported by it.

As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. I think that you need to read more licenses to see how they can cancel portions of copyright law and how they can add more restrictions on people. You may think that GPL (General Public License) is supported by copyright law but you may be surprised that it contains few obligations that are not supported by the U.S. copyright law.

I don't know about your country but in my country (U.S.), contract of which license is part plays a very large role in shaping the relationship between authors and people. Sometimes, contract is entirely based on copyright; sometimes, it adds more restrictions and obligations to what is already in copyright; sometimes, it relaxes the restrictions in copyright.

The bottom line is that the relationship between contract and copyright is not as simple as they look.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,824

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Tue Oct 18 2005 - 01:40:01 GMT