user generated content is not content? that clears a whole lot of
stuff up. does that mean all books published until now can be
categorised as uncopyrightable detritus? sounds like a very
progressive position to me...
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Barker, Phil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Picked up by Charles Oppenheim @CharlesOppenh on the Twitters:
>
> EU Commission Wants More Copyright Licensing, But Not Creative Commons Or
> Fair Use
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130204/12241621879/eu-commission-wants-more-copyright-licensing-not-creative-commons-fair-use.shtml
>
>
> Some quotes:
>
> " starting out from the point of view, that "user generated content" is
> somehow a different category than "content," itself is problematic"
>
> " Someone brought up fair use, and apparently the response was that "fair
> use is from the 20th century""
>
> " someone brought up Creative Commons licensing... and that conversation was
> also shut down as a "certain industry" claimed it was "too early" to discuss
> such things. Apparently, this "certain industry" doesn't realize that
> Creative Commons is a form of licensing too. Like too many maximalists, they
> consider Creative Commons not to be a form of licensing, but another form of
> "copyright exceptions," (which it is not)."
>
>
> Phil
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