What is IP and whose interests does copyright protect Re: [LINK] web site choices.

[Brendan Scott]

Roger Clarke wrote:
>> Roger Clarke wrote:
>>>  Reducing the information overload, I reckon that CC 'by-nc-nd' is
>>> the appropriate licence for circumstances like yours (and mine), i.e.:
>>>  -   Attribution please
>>>  -   No commercial use
>>>  -   No derivatives
> 
> At 10:13 +1000 6/9/06, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> isn't attribution please, no derivatives contradictory?
> 
> Making a derivative involves direct use of a substantial portion of the
> material, and adaptation to something different, e.g. translation to
> another language, or absorption into a longer and different publication.
> 
> Using ideas isn't prevented.  Nor is the use of terms, definitions, or
> quotations, even quite lengthy ones.
> 
> (In my case, I need the protection that 'no derivatives' affords me,
> because I say things that annoy people - and, to a considerable extent,
> I *intend* to annoy them.  I can't afford people having a licence to
> reproduce and adapt my material outside my control:  hang me for what I
> said if you have to, but not for what someone makes me appear to have
> said).

This is a legitimate concern, but it is bad public policy for the Government to permit this to be effected through the use of a copyright licence.  

Brendan