User:Derik/Zeloxenia
The Zeloxenia Media Fandom License (hereafter Zeloxenia License or ZX License) is a pre-conditional license grant aimed at removing many of the restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others while requiring that some freedoms be preserved in modified versions. It grants much broader re-usage rights than most other licenses but also places much greater restrictions the amount of re-usage, limiting the Licensee's reuse to a single Lagom measure. (defined below)
The Zeloxenia License is available to parties who also possess the Transformers license to produce official material related to the Transformers brand. The purpose of the license is to reduce legal or licensing 'penalties' that may be suffered by a holder of the Transformers license if small amounts of fandom-generated content is included in official material.
The Zeloxenia License is a codification of certain basic moral and ethical imperatives that exist between a media fandom and the properties which are object of that fanatacism.
for the re-use of small portions of content found on this site.
concerns itself with the issues of hospitality and obligation between guests and hosts specific to media fandom relationships.
The base "unit" of re-used content is a relatavistic unit called "Lagom measure."
Creative Commons licenses are several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001.
Many of the licenses, notably all the original licenses, grant certain "baseline rights",[1] such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work without changes, at no charge. Some of the newer licenses do not grant these rights.
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
To some extend, recipients of the Transformers license are also subject Zeloxenia; they license may grant fairly limited usage rights, whcih they are then expected to exceed.
Principles
[edit]- Customary Freehold
- A type of unwritten tenant/holder relationship where the tenant and holder are both granted certain rights and incur certain responsibilities towards one another without an act of the holder's will, by virtue of a long-standing residence. The tenant occupies a legal status somewhere between neighbor and guest.
- Xenia (Ξενία or "reciprocal hospitality")
- A principle of of hospitality, generosity or courtesy governing "guest-friendship", the ritually recognized binding reciprocal relationship between guest and host.
Application of these principles
[edit]For Media Fandom wherein the copyrighted material may be termed an 'open' property that fans have been encouraged to play and create their own adventures in, let it be said... we were invited.
naturally occurring
becausefor we are entering into a world where all human interaction is a matter of record... the old unwritten ("ad hoc") situational legal relationships are coming into play again... because there's somply too much interaction. That which used ot be fleeting or untracable has instead all become permenantly logged. It is impossible for positive law to givern the basic interaction of all humans... both because it's bad for that interaction and simply because the time/$ foes not work; positive law is intended for buig stuff "real" stuff, or realer than what's it's being applied to. The unwritten/unspoken laws are naturally expanding again to fill the void.
MELROSE PLACE IS A CLOSED-BOX ENTERTAINMENT. IT'S OFFERED AS IS WITH NO USER_SERVICABLE PARTS INSIDE.
Cntrast to open-box or sandbox entertainments where user narrative or roleplay is actively encouraged.
Melrose place actively shuts down any derivations. Sandbox franchises liek D&D and Transformers have enouraged the growth of those derivations... and can no more suddenly retract them than___ (monoology price-hike) or encouraging kleenex's generic use when it's good, but claiming no one can use it's when it's bad... at that point your ABILITY TO FORBID the most conservative usages has already been eroded or given up.
"Lagom measure" - the measure which does not prohibit use, but also does not encourage it.
License text
[edit]Consistent with the principles as outlined above, and conditions outlined below, a Lagom measure of the work is provided under the terms of this Zeloxenia License ("ZX" or "ζξ"). This work is protected by copyright and/or other applicable law. Any use other than as authorized under this license or copyright law is prohibited.
Applicability and Definitions
[edit]- License
- A legal document controlling a remit of use for copyrighted material.
- Licensor
- The person, group or entity granting a license.
- Licensee
- The person, group or entity recieving a license.
- Fan
- One who follows zealously.
- Fandom
- A group activity macro emergent. Large numbers of fans can exist without fandom. It has been noted how certain shows (L.A. Law) have avide viewerships but little or no fandom.
- Media fandom
- Fandom focused on contemporary television shows and movies, as distinct from other.
- Brand holder
- The legal holder of the base rights to the Brand. For Transformers this is Hasbro/Takara. For Star Trek is is Paramount.
- Transformers brand
- ?
- Transformers license
- The license grant from the Brand holder (Hasbro/Takara) which gives the licensee the right to produce official Transformers brand material.
- Brand husbandry
- The care and keeping of a brand.
- Lagom measure
- A relativistic unit of re-used content, perpetually existing at a size which does not prohibit use, but also does not encourage it.
- Zeloxenia
- An naturally occurring legal and ethical obligation that may emerge on the macro scale around media fandoms. Because there is an inherent aspect of brand husbandry, Zeloxenia is belied to occour exclusivelly in relation to media fandom.
- Open grounds
- The popular 1970's roleplaying system Dungeons & Dragons is an example of 'open grounds.' Players are provided with stock characters, bakgrounds and monsters, but required to create their own narratives within that framework.
- Closed grounds
- The popular 1990's television drama Melrose Place could be termed a 'closed grounds,' due to Spelling Television's active discouragement of fanish activity. It is provided as-is, with no API. An absence of fandom, but not fans.
- Media nomads
- Do not exist in fandom. Owning nothing.
- MMC
- a
- Massive Multiauthor Collaboration
- A body of published copyrightable works which provides prominent tools for anybody to edit those works. The work published on a public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a collaboration.
By exercising any rights to the work provided here, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of this license. To the extend thit license may be considered a contract, the Licensor grants you the rights contained here in consideration of you acceptance of such terms and conditions.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, and consistent with the principles described above, Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work as stated below:
Conditions
[edit]- Adopt a second pre-conditional license offered to producers who have the license to create Transformers works and includes the following clauses;
- CRIB from CC-BY-SA3: If any provision of this License is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, it shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of the terms of this License, and without further action by the parties to this agreement, such provision shall be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make such provision valid and enforceable.
- CRIB from GFDL 1.3: The [Us] may publish new, revised versions of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. [...] If the Document does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not as a draft) by [US].
Restrictions
[edit]Restrictions. The license granted in the previous section above is expressly made subject to and limited by the following restrictions:
- You may Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work only under the terms of this License.
You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for, this License with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform. You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that restrict the terms of this License or the ability of the recipient of the Work to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License.
You may not sublicense the Work. You must keep intact all notices that refer to this License and to the disclaimer of warranties with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform. When You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work, You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. This Section 4(a) applies to the Work as incorporated in a Collection, but this does not require the Collection apart from the Work itself to be made subject to the terms of this License. If You create a Collection, upon notice from any Licensor You must, to the extent practicable, remove from the Collection any credit as required by Section 4(c), as requested. If You create an Adaptation, upon notice from any Licensor You must, to the extent practicable, remove from the Adaptation any credit as required by Section 4(c), as requested.
unconditional rights
does not
- this license is provided seperate from any other license which may apply to the work.
- This license may or may not cover the whole of the work in which case, use of any remaining balance of the work is believed to be fair use unless proven otherwise.
- If prooven to exceed fair use, the remainder is believed to be Zeloxenia.
- If the remainder exceeds Xeloxenia, the remainder may fall under be a previously extant copyright scheme or license.
- If prooven to exceed fair use, the remainder is believed to be Zeloxenia.
- If this license is co-offered with CC-BY-SA3... it is understood that two versions are made to exist... one which is
a portion is afforded to the Licensor to use a Landom measure of the work.
"Lagom measure" - the measure which does not prohibit use, but also does not encourage it.
Ratification
[edit]The administrative body (steal lang from GFDL) may adopt the
The operator of an MMC Site
