Saturday, December 07, 2013

[oychtvxd] Crowdsourcing automatically Creative Commons

Consider making all works produced by using crowdsourcing, and all derivative works of them, automatically become Creative Commons or GPL (especially AGPL for SaaS) unless a tax is paid.  Philosophically, the intellectual property of the public remains public property.

This would be an extremely radical change to the status quo.  Goal is to correct market failures like Google's barriers to entry for competitors.

Even a bug report could be considered crowdsourcing.  Where should the boundary be?  I don't think compensation is enough to disqualify crowdsourcing.  Vaguely thinking it's something about how the beneficiary of the information found the provider, the search cost.

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