Hypothesis - wikipedia articles have a specific CCASA license, and they switched to it.
Concern - I am putting a ton of material into wiki... and it needs the right license.
Example - Cory Efram - multi-expert... his books
Wikipedia - CC-BY-SA
Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" - CC-BY-NC-SA
Copyright. All Rights Reserved. (Proprietary)
CC0 (Public domain)
CC-BY
BY = attribution - have to give credit to whoever made it...
NC = non-commercial
SA = sharealike
ND = no derivatives
Creative commons was a lot of work, and some of the smartest kindest deepest hearted people in the world. Smart, ethical, high power people. People who built creative commons a lot how to do it, how to fit in, protecting rights they carved out... and fortified it over time through multiple slow fine grained iterations.. huge amount of work to build the right infrastructure for this..
Now - don't know who they are...
In much of developed word - you can't give something away to public domain - takes very specific legally correct way to give things away.
Pete's experience - every time you put an extra restriction... limits how far it is going to go... each of qualities is like a sieve... the more you put, the harder to distribute...
If we want our work to spread as broadly as possible, all conditions add friction of forward motion of your stuff into the world.
Public domain - no restriction, belongs to the commons - really giving it away.
with wikipedia, enough material there - big glob of stuff people can steal and do bad stuff - being super easy to take a copy of all text on wikipedia, put advertising on it, make spam websites people fall into and cant get out...
download all wikipedia, and give away to people without internet access...
licenses don't stop people from doing things - gives you right to sue them.
People do bad things with content. pick it up. use for spam. also really easy to just change a word, weaponize things, exploit things... also not hard to weaponize in various ways...
someone wants to make money, download chunk of whatever, put a more restrive license on it, then sue originator.
Happens with patents etc. - steal out of commons, enclose it, then sue originators... if they set up venture to have enough money to have legal team to enforce, can squash little people one by one who don't have enough money to fight...
Defenses -
Failure mode concern - think about the people who think it sounds interesting - I see it is CC X - why should I go buy it if I can get it for free?
Next - how to protect from bad actors
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