P-Prompt: What could/should a license enable ​​​​​​or support?

Séverine Dusollier, a long time collaborator of Constant and inspiring conversation partner for thinking about critical approaches to copyright and intellectual property, is trained as a lawyer and works as a researcher and teacher in Paris. With her persistent work on collective authorship, inclusive property and attribution otherwise, she brings a perspective to the project that is grounded in legal practice. Séverine sent us several prompts after we met for an afternoon to record a conversation.

In this prompt, she asks as to think about the operational agency of a license that is concerned with reuse. How much do we think a license can do? What do we expect, hope for or dream for when writing or applying an Open Content license?

→ See Prompt: Prepositions

What modes of being could/should a license facilitate?
What could/should a license enable ​​​​​​or support?

Owning
Belonging
Sharing
Releasing
Giving
Granting
Permitting
Relinquishing
Authorising
Excluding
Including
Opening
Closing
Caring
Collaborating​​​​​​​
Governing
Conditioning
Inviting
Disappropriating
Enabling
Commoning
Attributing
Connecting
Troubling
Making kin
Inheriting
​​​​​​​Asking Questions
Nurturing
Provoking
Speculating
Empowering
Playing
Committing
Protecting
Relating
.......