Re: Open Access & Conservation Commons

[Tom Moritz <tmoritz@amnh.org>]

And, I might add that IUCN (The World Conservation Union) and The World
Bank have both used "informal" versions of the CC non-commercial,
attribution-required license scheme for many years (IUYCN since ca. 1987)  
-- consequences have not appeared to be disastrous for either body...

And since I'm writing to this list, occurs to me that it may be of
interest that we succeeded in passing a "recommendation" in support of the
"Conservation Commons"  at the World Conservation Congress in Bangkok,
Nov., 2004 -- I believe the final vote tallies were 79 national
delegations for 1 against (US abstained) and ca. 150 NGO's for... SEE:  
http://www.iucn.org/congress/members/adopted_res_and_rec/REC/RECWCC3085-%20REC037E%20Final.pdf
(recommendation) AND http://conservationcommons.org/

Tom Moritz

Co-Chair -- Information Management Task Force
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
IUCN (The World Conservation Union)
http://wcpa.iucn.org/taskforce/info/info.html

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At 06:59 PM 2/28/2005 -0500, Michael Carroll wrote:

>Peter,
>
>In the post below you write, "Personally, I think that something like the
>Creative Commons License would be disaster for authors, publishers, and
>librarians, since it affords no protection against the misstatement,
>exploitation, and diffusion of a work."
>
>How so?  Like any other copyright license, a Creative Commons license
>permits certain uses of the copyrighted work.  All other uses are reserved
>exclusively to the copyright owner.  There is a menu of Creative Commons
>licenses.  The copyright owner can choose to permit commercial uses or
>restrict the licensee to non-commercial use.  Similarly, the copyright
>owner can choose whether to permit the creation of derivative works or
>not, and, if derivative works are permitted, the licensor can demand that
>the derivative work also be licensed under the same terms as the
>underlying work.
>
>Hardly a disaster.
>
>Regards,
>
>Michael W. Carroll
>Villanova University School of Law
>Research papers at
>http://ssrn.com/author=330326