Free and Free and CC
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Dec 19, 2006
Alan Levine abandons the non-commercial and share-alike conditions on his licenses after some lobbying. My experience is that most of the lobbying is by companies just waiting to get their hands on the free stuff, convert it to commercial stuff, and then close down the market. I could be wrong. But without free markets we can't have free content, and we don't have free markets yet, not with DRM still on the ascendent. Levine misrepresents my concern as "the fear that Some Big Evil Moneygrubbing Corporate Entity will get Fabulously Wealthy By Using My Stuff." I don't care if people get wealthy; I do care if they get wealthy by denying access to other people. Meanwhile, a newspaper chain in the U.S. has rolled out a Creative Commons non-commercial license over 96 newspaper websites.
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