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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8899385" data-attributes="member: 42582">As per my various posts on this upthread, I don't agree. I think there are implicit limits, established by the permissions and powers that are conferred on licensees in relation to OGC, as to what might count as a &quot;version&quot; of the licence.I don't think my arguments to this conclusion are in any sense knock-down ones. But I do think they express the better view.Agreed. But no new licence can prevent that. No large commercial publisher is going to enter into a contractual promise to all the world to never enter into any other licence agreement in respect of any of its copyrighted works ever in the future.I think the current debacle shows that the real issue is not stewardship at all, but rather the fact that everyone wants to publish content that is potentially copyright infringing of the texts owned by a market dominant actor. It is that feature of the market, rather than the legal niceties of who owns copyright in the licence, that is driving things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8899385, member: 42582"] As per my various posts on this upthread, I don't agree. I think there are implicit limits, established by the permissions and powers that are conferred on licensees in relation to OGC, as to what might count as a "version" of the licence. I don't think my arguments to this conclusion are in any sense knock-down ones. But I do think they express the better view. Agreed. But no new licence can prevent that. No large commercial publisher is going to enter into a contractual promise to all the world to never enter into any other licence agreement in respect of any of its copyrighted works ever in the future. I think the current debacle shows that the real issue is not stewardship at all, but rather the fact that everyone wants to publish content that is potentially copyright infringing of the texts owned by a market dominant actor. It is that feature of the market, rather than the legal niceties of who owns copyright in the licence, that is driving things. [/QUOTE]

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