[Community] Stallman polemizza con CC

[MARCO MARANDOLA]

Salve..
Sembra che CC e Stallman siano arrivati "ai ferri corti" dopo le critiche 
(pesanti) di Stallman a CC.

Saluti.

Marco Marandola

http://dosemagazine.blogsome.com/2005/07/04/stallman-et-al-at-copyright2005/

...
This criticism of Creative Commons set off the litigator instinct in 
lawyer-Marcus Bornfreund, who attacked Stallman’s position (and Stallman 
himself) as a “fascist leader,” forcing his “ideology” on his “followers,” 
and denying people “choice,” after all doesn’t “choice mean freedom? Yet 
your leader wants to deny you choice.” It was a pretty intense attack, and a 
little awkward, but raises a very good question that people need to be able 
to answer. Is choice freedom?

Bornfreund’s view, as I understood it, is that the author (of art, of 
software) should be able to choose between a full spectrum of licences, 
presumably from the freest to the most restricting (if his claim that choice 
means freedom is valid, then in this case the choice should go all the way 
to the most restrictive patent/copyright now available). Bornfreund is 
arguing to give the author the ability to allow users of his/her work to 
share, if the author wishes. Freedom to share is something the author has 
the right to grant, or not.

Stallman claims that certain freedoms must be essential for everyone, such 
as the right to make unlimited non-commercial copies of works. Stallman is 
arguing that the right to share should be an essential freedom for people 
regardless of what the author thinks. (Note this is in non-commercial 
cases). Freedom to share is an inalienable right for all of society.

In other words, Stallman argues for freedom in society, whereas Bornfreund 
argues for freedom of the author.

It’s too bad the debate was so acrimonious, with, I think it’s fair to say, 
Bornfreund crossing the line from reasoned argument to show-boaty attack, 
and not coming off too well in the process. His fascist comments were over 
the top, and his views of freedom rather childish (if you think freedom is 
so great, then I am free to punch you in the nose and there’s nothing you 
can do about it), still if you don’t have time to think about it they sell 
well, especially since you hear this kind of view of freedom so often (eg 
free markets = democracy etc).