Raleigh, NC
I'm a Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University with an intense affection for all things FOSS. I'm particularly interested in leveraging Open Source in the classroom and expanding the commons of freely-licensed educational courseware. I'm a Computer Scientist, so FOSS is obviously a big part of what I'm interested in, but I would particularly like to see Open Source and Libre Culture penetrate the non-technical disciplines, since there's a whole lot more to it than computing!
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<em>You wouldn't download a cow...</em>
You raise a great point, and I can see that my comment was rather myopic. I should know first-hand from my interactions with folks in creative communities like deviantArt the difficulties in teaching people about open licensing... and then trying to convince them that giving up traditional copyright in favor of CC is supposed to somehow be a Good Thing!
Thanks for sharing your anecdote on the librarian-publisher dynamic - I've never considered it from that angle, and now you've inspired me to do some more research on the topic!