[Lac] Creative Commons Licensing for Developing Countries.

[Diego Saravia]

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> >Digital divide is a poverty issue  
> >The better way to do something about digital divide is fight against  
> >poverty. 
> > 
> Digital Divide is not just a poverty issue. It's an information issue... 
> that's another reason why Free Software is so important. Wouldn't you 
> agree? 
> > 
> >>     
 
Free software is more a matter of freedom, than a mater of economy. 
It could help, off course.  
 
We need free soft in rich countries and in poor countries. 
 
If people do have enough money to buy computers and access, there can do it 
if they want. No digital divide. 
 
The other way of think is to give computers and access to poor people. 
I do not like to think that way. I prefer to live in a society without poor 
people. That also aplies to CC for poor contries. 
 
 
 
  
 
> >> 
>  
> There are a lot of international organizations which are trying to share 
> information with developing countries, but writing a license that 
> doesn't shoot themselves in the foot appears to be difficult - and 
> costly. Lawyers are not cheap :) Free Software makes the sharing of 
> software fair for everyone involved, but sometimes with non- 
> functional works simply copyrighting them doesn't appear to be  
> enough. So they hide them from people, and charge money for them.  
> Since everyone does this, they have to do it so that they can  
> compete - at least this is what they think. Changing completely to  
> Free Content scares people, just the same as Free Software scares  
> some people (notably our friends in Redmond, Washington). 
 
Is good to scare that people. 
 
 But if  
> everyone sticks their toes in the water with developing countries,  
> things get better for developing countries (like *our countries*) 
>  while they experiment with the 'new' concepts. And if it's  
> comfortable, they will stick their leg in it, and if that's  
> comfortable, they will jump in. 
>  
> I'm playful. I splash people sometimes when they come to the pool,  
> but there are certain people I do not splash, or am careful of splashing. 
> It's because it is more important that they come into the pool than  
> me having fun (which means I lose some of my fun, but the long term  
> goal is better). 
>  
> So this particular license is actually a step for people who want to 
> help the developing world without losing an advantage in the  
> developed world. It's not a FDL, but it's a step in the right  
> direction. So I encourage it, and point them to the deeper end of  
> the pool... playing in it whenever I can so that they can see it's safe. 
>  
> People are fragile when it comes to change, sometimes we must  
> remember that. 
 
yes of course, we must support the people that wants to change. 
 
 
I understand your point, its an economic issue. 
It is an step as you said, but i am not sure if it is a step in the right 
direction. CC helps people to use copyright, I think we must destroy 
copyright, as we know it.  
 
 
 
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