Prompt 16: What should a licence be about?

Séverine Dussolier sent us three prompts after we met for an afternoon at to record a conversation with her. (We might turn the conversation into a podcast. You'll find the transcript under “resources” below). Séverine brings a particular perspective, since she is professor of law at Sciences Po in Paris developing critical approaches to copyright and IP, and has been for a long time a close collaborator and inspiration to us.

In her third prompt, she asks as to think about the operational agency of a licence document allowing, restricting or forbidding reuse. Please keep adding to the list.

What a licence is/should be about (or not):

Owning
Belonging
Sharing
Releasing
Giving
Granting
Relinquishing
Licensing
Authorising
Excluding Including Opening Closing Caring Collaborating Co-creating Co-authoring Practising Living Governing Deciding Conditioning Inviting Building Making Unmaking Desappropriating Enabling Commoning Communing Creating Assigning Attributing Connecting Publicising Organising Troubling Weaving Sowing Planting Meaning Making kin Inheriting Nurturing Speculating Receiving Performing Freeing Empowering Playing Experimenting Distributing Transmitting …