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 that is concerned with 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
• Disappropriating
• Enabling
• Commoning
• Creating
• Assigning
• Attributing
• Connecting
• Publicising
• Organising
• Troubling
• Weaving
• Sowing
• Planting
• Meaning
• Making kin
• Inheriting
• Nurturing
• Speculating
• Receiving
• Performing
• Freeing
• Empowering
• Playing
• Experimenting
• Distributing
• Transmitting
• …