One can sympathize with Larry Lessig's frustration in "An Obvious Distinction":
LL:
"In 2010, [for David Wallace-Evans] to suggest [in a
6000-word review in The Nation] that [the Creative
Commons movement] 'exhort[s]… piracy and the plundering
of culture'... betrays not just sloppy thinking [but]
extraordinary ignorance… [and lack of] respect for what
has been written… This terrain has been plowed a hundred
times in the past decade… Reading is the first step to…
respect for what has been written... Reading is what
Wallace-Wells has not done well."
Larry tries to correct Wallace-Evans's 6000 sloppy words with 878 carefully
chosen ones of his own.
Let me try to atone for my own frequent long-windedness by trying to put it even
more succinctly (20 words):
Creative Commons' goal
is to protect
creators' give-away rights --
not consumers'
(or 2nd-party copyright-holders')
rip-off rights.
(Reader's of the American Scientist Open Access Forum may have a sense of déjà
lu about this since at least as far back as December
2000:
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1048.html )
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Harnad, Stevan (2000/2001/2003/2004) For Whom the Gate
Tolls? Published as: (2003) Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research
Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving: Maximizing Research
Impact by Maximizing Online Access. In: Law, Derek & Judith Andrews,
Eds. Digital Libraries: Policy Planning and Practice. Ashgate
Publishing 2003. [Shorter version: Harnad S. (2003) Journal of
Postgraduate Medicine 49: 337-342.] and in: (2004) Historical Social
Research (HSR) 29:1. [French version: Harnad, S. (2003) Cielographie
et cielolexie: Anomalie post-gutenbergienne et comment la resoudre.
In: Origgi, G. & Arikha, N. (eds) Le texte a l'heure de l'Internet.
Bibliotheque Centre Pompidou: 77-103.
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The persistent "piracy" canard calls to mind others like it, foremost among them
being:
"OA ≡ Gold OA (publishing)"...
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Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S.,
Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H., & Hilf, E. (2004) The
green and the gold roads to Open Access. Nature Web Focus
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