The Software Freedom Law Show

Episode 0x1A: Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons

10 November 2009

Bradley and Karen interview Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons .

This show was released on Tuesday 10 November 2009; its running time is 00:49:21.

Bradley and Karen discuss whether 0x1A is a “landmark” in hex. (01:00)
Dan Lynch, SFLS Producer, is a host of Linux Outlaws. (02:25)
Bradley quoted Larry Wall from one of his 1999 State of the Onion speech. (03:45)

Image of Mike Linksvayer by http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/, Licensed CC BY 2.0.

Our guest is Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons. (06:05)
Mike is the longest serving employee of Creative Commons. (06:56)
CC-by-SA is the most popular Creative Commons license with the software freedom crowd. (13:40)
CC-Attribution is another license type that Mike mentioned (14:00)
Mike quoted from various sections of CC-by-SA to make the point that there are methods to avoid misrepresentation (19:15)
Mike pointed out fair use can even be used to misrepresent a person's views, so prohibiting derivative works for that purpose sometimes doesn't even help. (24:00)
Mike, Bradley, and Karen discussed the Wikipedia move from FDL to CC-By-SA. Mike pointed out that a “one magnet” need in copyleft. (26:12)
Mike mentioned that the Fedora project recently switched to CC-By-SA for their documentation and wikis. (27:17)
Mike, Bradley and Karen discussed issues related to autonomo.us. (33:00)

Mike and Karen will follow up to discuss whether CC-By-SA would be a better license for the Software Freedom Law Show or other works by lawyers. (39:20)
Bradley changed the license of his website to CC-By-SA. (40:10)
Bradley and Karen discussed identi.ca. (42:00)
Donald Knuth organized his kitchen around the trash can. (46:00)

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