Can you use “free culture†works in an LMS?
Brian Lamb,
Abject,
Jul 25, 2012
So Creative Commons has decided to claim that if you sell a resource, it is a 'free resource', but that if you require that it not be sold, it is not a 'free resource'. This is - as I have argued at length over the years - just backwards. When you block access to a resource unless people give you money, it's not free, not in any sense of the word. This division of Creative Commons licenses into (so-called) 'free resources' and 'not free resources' has me up in arms, so much so that I may remove all Creative Commons licensing from my works and go with something else. I like what Brian Lamb is pointing to here, in part: "No DRM or TPM [DRM - Digital Rights Management, TPM - Technological Protection Measures] – You must not restrict access to the work using technical measures." I want a thing that says You must not restrict access to this resource at all. This works for me. See - I don't care whether people make money using my stuff. I care a lot if they start blocking access to copies of it. If I can have 'no protection measures' or some such thing, I can remove the NC clause. But where is this in Creative Commons? Ah - nowhere.
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