CC 4 Attribution License - Can this be used with CB app?

The FOSS Community (Free Open Source Software) has had a way of allowing contributors to collaborative projects to be recognised (and paid) through a 'Contributor License Agreement'. Do people believe this is a method which could be expanded to Cultural Commoning? For example, CLA's managed under a Commons Trust might enable larger financiers to direct asset based funding at the very people and orgs who are creating the value in communities... Any thoughts on this? Notably, 'Commons Trusts' are yet to be documented on the Commons Wiki...

feel free to update what we already have:

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Trusts

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Trusts_FAQ

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Trusts

Hi Michel

Sure, if I have spare time (currently immersed in our partnership annual accounts!) I'll see what I can do, for this and also there was a whole lot else that has come up on Co-operative Technologists...

best wishes

Simon

Excellent Explanation of Peer Production License distinctions from Creative Commons Licenses here: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License

Also: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Copyfarleft

Here is a most recent development of licenses for CultureBanking™ and other DAO's... there's a huge amount to consider in all of this but, essentially, meeting the needs I outlined a few years back to update and up-spec Creative Commons and PPL's. Of course, licenses will proliferate - it's unavoidable and these will hopefully serve as better templates. The really important innovations are about how they are used to manage common resources and produce common wealth... Very much hoping to find some support for culturebanking to help drive that innovation, but also to drive a wider awareness in 'creative communities' of the scope for sharing public/common/private/club goods - all at once! - to produce shared wealth. Exciting news... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tYNMLkKpeSbPuPhusqw6LyUCIy08KeZFmv2KrylOPS4/edit

Not sure if it's totally on point here, but in all of the discussion about licenses, a key issue that often gets overlooked IMHO is the enforceability of any given licence in a court. On this front something like the Peer Production Licence would in my view be a whole lot harder to work with than someothng out of the Creative Commons stable, given the weight of resource that is behind CC. If I recall correctly, in a recent conversation about the Platform Cooperative Development Toolkit, the plan there on licensing is to use a CC licence variant as opposed to PPL for precisely these reasons.

Agreed - but that’s because CC is just ‘copyright ‘ - which already exists. What might be interesting is the idea of a DAO Collective based around ‘creative law’ ( guess that means copyright etc too).. there is a rift in these licenses between people who actually need to produce ‘an original unique thing’ and those who ‘contribute original work’ to a whole.. This I’m trying to work out now. :-) - thanks for the point.. suspect you are right on point with it.. frankly, it comes down to getting paid in the end. Liam

The point about enforceability is well made. Does this point to the desirability of some team -- or "task force" ;) -- to look into, then support, the enforcement of Peer Production Licences? To my mind, it would be great to have someone taking this on. And not me, by the way!

Hi Graham - http://contributivecommons.org/licence-contributive-commons-by-co-sa-1-complete/ - https://openlaw.fr/ - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lt0c7BJsWmXy0uDmGrfZpXyWPHj-TRhoRNgfPdlLt4A/edit - a few resources re: 'legal defense'/latest thinking etc... (complicated!) Liam