“Copyleft Trolls” とたたかう 2023

• The primary goal of license enforcement should be getting reusers to comply with the license.
• Legal action should be taken sparingly.
• Enforcement may involve monetary compensation, but should not be a business model.

• 再利用を行う者にライセンスを遵守してもらうことを、ライセンスの執行の第一の目的とすること
• 法的な措置は頻繁に行われるべきではないこと
• 金銭的補償をもたらす執行もあり得るが、それがビジネスモデルとなるべきではないこと

Give some grace. When you choose to grant permission to your photos under any open license available on Flickr, we ask that you give the reuser a 30-day grace period to fix any possible mistake or misuse of your CC-licensed work with no penalty. Failure to allow a good faith reuser the opportunity to correct errors is against the intent of the license and not in line with the values of our community, and can result in your account being removed. If you use CC licenses, please understand that we support and adhere to the strategy for addressing license enforcement described in the Creative Commons’ Statement of Enforcement Principles.

But what they have done is modify their policies to create a de facto CC 4.0 environment for their users, by promising to terminate the accounts of any user who repeatedly threatens legal action over bad attribution strings without first offering a 30-day grace period.

Flickr’s done more than that, actually. For one thing, they ditched Pixsy, severing their relationship with the company (Pixsy still lists them on its “partner” page). They also created the Flickr Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to providing long-term, responsible stewardship for their CC and public domain image respositories:

https://www.flickr.org/

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

プラットフォームはこのように滅びていく。まず、ユーザにとって良き存在になる。次に、ビジネス顧客にとって良き存在になるために、ユーザを虐げる。最後に、ビジネス顧客を虐げて、すべての価値を自分たちに向ける。そうして死んでいく。