But since the lights went out I’ve never been the same

[venta]

Yesterday I had one of those moments where I realise I have a very specific opinion on something - but no real justification for it, and no clear idea where I got it from.

So, you, my dear self-selecting sample of guinea pigs, have the opportunity to prove me right. Or wrong. But I'm not going to tell you which is which. I'd hate to bias my otherwise-scientific survey.

I'm asking here about portable mp3 players (or mp3-a-likes). If you use your computer to play mp3s at you at home, or have some form of mp3 monster in the car, that's not what I meant.

[Poll #442057]

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

There's one reason that Creative Commons works

I agree with this bit.

The one case I can think of where there could be commercial harm done by infringement of a CC license is if the CC no-derivative-works condition is applied to some work which the author himself modifies (or re-licenses to someone else who modifies) and sells the modified version commercially. If company X then comes along, modifies the CC-licensed original and starts selling their own modification, then I would have thought that the author could probably proceed exactly as in any other case of plagiarism. But who knows, maybe that CC original would scupper his chances.

[diffrentcolours]

I doubt it. If I create something, I can license it to different people under different licenses as I see fit. If I invite a bunch of people to my house for a party, and also invite a subset of those people to come to my house and crash over, then not everybody invited to the party can crash just because some of them can.