These kind of intelectual rights are enforced by author coalitions. The problem is, the coalition tends to become a lobby wich mainly defends the rights of the record companies instead of their real obligation. But this shouldn't happen if instead of a coffee-for-all boilerplate each author could enforce her own prerequisits.
One of Free Software's main benefits and main cause of success is the moral reward, the feeling of doing a good to the community.
This kind of licenses can bring to general creative work these perceived benefits. Authors of poetry, music, books, scientific investigation, whatever, may release their work as a gift to humanity. This would give them public acknowledgement and gratitude while assuring their right to control the content donated.
Public may be able to appreciate these values and want them as a good in itself. If you believe in market laws, soon it would become an extra advantage for a comercial product the fact of being released with a permisive license. This is right now happening in the software domain.
I wonder what the effect of automatic control of licenses might be. We have all being scared with news about DMCA embedding in hardware the control of not copyrighted material reproduction.
But if this control is developed for real author (not editor) protection, with the license being a running program? Well developed-debugged licenses would be an extra tempt for artistic products, and record companies would try to keep a work well done. Everyone in the industry take profit of this model of release.
The Brazilian city of Porto Alegre is an amazingly successfull example of social involvement. With a previous history of political corruption, the new town goverment decided a new model to manage the budgets: letting the people decide.
Half of the funds are spent in the way that neighbour associations decide in public debates. From the moment this model was adopted, the city has made spectacular progress in public infraestructures.
Porto Alegre has been chosen as the meeting point for the World Social Forum as an acknowledgement of its innovative democratic operation.
Frecuently happens that the most interesting use of games is to go beyond them and get into real bussiness.
Never heard of Minesweeper as a productivity training tool? Time spent in gaming is worth for learning the new technology.
Can you imagine what these technologies might imply if used for other tasks? Can you imagine a public forum accesible from every mobile device, populated with users previously trained with a game?
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These kind of intelectual rights are enforced by author coalitions. The problem is, the coalition tends to become a lobby wich mainly defends the rights of the record companies instead of their real obligation. But this shouldn't happen if instead of a coffee-for-all boilerplate each author could enforce her own prerequisits.
One of Free Software's main benefits and main cause of success is the moral reward, the feeling of doing a good to the community.
This kind of licenses can bring to general creative work these perceived benefits. Authors of poetry, music, books, scientific investigation, whatever, may release their work as a gift to humanity. This would give them public acknowledgement and gratitude while assuring their right to control the content donated.
Public may be able to appreciate these values and want them as a good in itself. If you believe in market laws, soon it would become an extra advantage for a comercial product the fact of being released with a permisive license. This is right now happening in the software domain.
I wonder what the effect of automatic control of licenses might be. We have all being scared with news about DMCA embedding in hardware the control of not copyrighted material reproduction.
But if this control is developed for real author (not editor) protection, with the license being a running program? Well developed-debugged licenses would be an extra tempt for artistic products, and record companies would try to keep a work well done. Everyone in the industry take profit of this model of release.
Half of the funds are spent in the way that neighbour associations decide in public debates. From the moment this model was adopted, the city has made spectacular progress in public infraestructures.
Porto Alegre has been chosen as the meeting point for the World Social Forum as an acknowledgement of its innovative democratic operation.
Frecuently happens that the most interesting use of games is to go beyond them and get into real bussiness.
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Never heard of Minesweeper as a productivity training tool? Time spent in gaming is worth for learning the new technology.
Can you imagine what these technologies might imply if used for other tasks? Can you imagine a public forum accesible from every mobile device, populated with users previously trained with a game?
Can you imagine a distributed Slashdot?