Free as in Freedom

Episode 0x08: Strictly Commercial

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Bradley and Karen

discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC
license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software
licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free
Culture/Software ones.

Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
  • Listeners seeking a show on how to select a Free Software license,
    • differences between copyleft and non-copyleft, and how they interact with
    copyright are encouraged to listen to
    episode 0x08 of the old Software Freedom Law Show which
    covered these topics. Please write in again if that show doesn't
    cover your questions on the issue. (02:10)
  • Bradley reminisced about the crass “Brian and O'Brien”
    • show on Baltimore's B-104 Gary
    Huddles who was notorious locally in Baltimore because he was implicated
    in Maryland's version of the 1980s Savings and Loan scandals.
    (03:30)
  • Karen mentioned that freedomdefined.org is the
    • source for the Free Culture definition that defines what licenses are Free
    Culture licenses. (12:54)
  • Bradley suggested listening to some of the old versions of RMS' Copyright vs. Community in the
    • Age of Computer Networks. In fact, there is an audio
    recording of the one
    at MIT on 19 April 2001 that Bradley attended, and an audio
    recording of the one that Bradley heard at Cardozo Law
    School. There is audio
    of the Q&A session, wherein RMS engages in that discussion Bradley
    mentioned with Free Culture activists. (10:10, 14:04)
  • Bradley mentioned that Linus
    • Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because he realized non-commercial restrictions
    weren't appropriate. (Search the string GPL on that link to find Linus'
    answer on that.) (19:00)
  • Karen mentioned that Creative Commons did a study
    • considering what people understand commercial vs. non-commercial to
    mean. (20:43)
  • Karen and Bradley discussed the text of
    • CC-By-NC. (23:00)
  • Karen mentioned various CC-By-SA licensed derivatives that had been
    • made from Sita Sings the
    Blues. (38:24)
  • Bradley discussed the Harry
    • Potter Lexicon case and Karen mentioned the so-called IP
    Colloquium discussion on it. (44:30)
  • Bradley mentioned Memory Alpha, which is a
    • CC-By-NC wiki regarding Star
    Trek, which is tolerated by Paramount. (45:20)

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