Faction license: Difference between revisions

A '''faction license''' would be a [[parametric license]] alternative to a single monolithic [[Consumerium license]].  It would not assign all rights to the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] permanently but would only let the CGO use the information in [[Consumerium Services]] as long as it obeyed some ground rules that ensured the faction of [[due process]] in dealings with the other factions.  This would help equalize power among those factions that do and don't have their own [[healthy buying infrastructure]] in place or work as operators.  It would potentially work as follows:

Each [[faction]] here could specify its own variant of [[Creative Commons]] to apply (much as the [[Green Documentation License|Green Documentation]], [[Green Patent License|Patent]] and [[Green Software License|Software License]]s are expected to do), and set simple terms for sharing information with the others along those parametric lines.  For instance if one faction preferred not to release data for commercial purposes or had no right to do so, it would be able to set a price (infinite if the transaction is impossible) on relaxing those terms to allow commercial use.  This being done in advance, any commercial deployment of the information would invoke a known-in-advance payment.  This is exactly how the [[recording industry royalty]] system works:  by specifying clearly in advance how much songwriters, singers, producers, arrangers, are paid, it is absolutely certain that no [[cease and desist letter]]s will be received - the price for this [[rights clearance]] is also certain.  Only instead of having a single entity per country to collect for all artists in that country, we have global factions to do it on behalf of all those who ask for similar terms.