[Clipart] CC Zero and Policies and DMCA

[Nicu Buculei]

On 12/02/2010 10:58 AM, jon at rejon.org wrote:
> I understand your feeling Nicu.

I abstained myself from commenting since I already expressed my opinion 
on this a few times and wanted to see what others have to say.

> However, I was part of the creation of CC Zero and the updated CC PDM at
> CC and it they were created to solve problems inspired by our project
> and some others in particular in countries that don't have a concept of
> public domain and even worse, legal infrastructure in the way of
> releasing all rights as we want to do.

I know and would have liked if you talked with us at the time, to gather 
feedback from a pool of contributors.

> So, now if you look at the CC Zero, its called also the CC Zero Public
> Domain Dedication tool.
>
> I literally fought really hard against this CC Zero branding internally
> at CC, but no one will get to hear those tales (well maybe over some
> beers later at LGM2011 ;), but I lost out, or rather, I moved onto my
> new lifestyle ;) THus, CC Zero and the CC PDM both survived and now have
> become real.
>
> So, we really need to go with CC Zero and these statements for our own good.

With this license change and the content filtering with no opt-out 
(which troubles me *a lot*) I will probably take a looooong break from 
uploading any new content.

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