Re: [mmox] mmox Digest, Vol 1, Issue 113

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>Can you post relevant links and the author's name and book title to
demonstrate (to Prokofy) that there is at least one case where someone
had made a living based on a Creative Commons License?   When making
claims, it's important to reference the evidence so that other people
cannot refute it without making logical fallacies that can be pointed
out.

Paging Nizkor! Sounds like arguing a generality from a specific with no basis!

As I've already noted, anecdotal stories about people selling consulting services on top of their opensourced wares or giveaways on CC can be collected (a kind of obfuscation), like that case of that guy in Africa who put his book up for free on the Internet and still sold it (tip jar) but none of this is a peer-reviewed, exhaustive scientific study with a representative sample and real field testing. Posting "one case" or even "20 cases of my close, personal friends" is not a scientific study. There is no rigorous study that says that CC licenses enable people not already subsidized by government or private grants or by corporate payrolls actually "make a living". Most people who put up content for free with a CC license get credit, but don't get cash. That's because CC doesn't have a c/m/t management system and micropayment system like a virtual world can. Therefore, following the CC cashless name credit-only formula isn't one that can sustain an economy, it can only sustain a collective where people are subsidized elsewhere.

Raise your hands on this list if you are able to make your living entirely by putting up free digital content on the Internet, giving it away for free, and selling your "customization" or "consulting" on top of that.

Meanwhile, we have the reality of SL, where the economic statistics of people who can make a living from selling content and services with digital rights and intellectual property protection, number in the thousands. So rather than chase after the chimera of the CC license, which is merely a browbeating and a tip jar for most people, whatever it is for those few cases, let's look at where we have hard field information. 

Prokofy Neva

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