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A new license for content: Uncreative Extraordinary

Filed under: Humour and Nonsense by Hari
Posted on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:38 IST (last updated: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 @ 20:17 IST)

Papa Hari News Service

Uncreative Extraordinary Following widespread demand from a huge but shy and retiring community of content producers online and in the publishing world, the Papa Hari Foundation for the Benefit of Uncreative, Unrecognized and Undeserving Content Producers (PHFBUUUCP) has come up with a new license that legally protects them from the embarrassment of being attributed and quoted authoritatively.

The new license, labelled not inappropriately "Uncreative Extraordinary" fills an unfulfilled need in the community of writers and artists who otherwise desire to share their work, but do so in a less embarrassing way.

The three-point license is spelled out in the terms given below:

Explanation of "Extraordinary": It is legally assumed that you must be extraordinarily desperate and/or even more talentless than the original content producer in order to use the content for your own purposes. Our sympathies go out to you.
"This content license model has finally filled a growing demand for a truly inclusive and factually correct representation of a huge, but under-represented and silent community of content producers worldwide," said a spokesperson of the Anonymous Group of Extraordinarily Uncreative Writers (AGEUW). "I am truly grateful to the Papa Hari Foundation for recognizing our genuine grievance against conventional copyright laws as well as embarrassing licensing models like the Creative Commons. Being truly uncreative and honest about it, we cannot, in good conscience license our content under the CC model."

In the meantime, many copyright activists has staged demonstrations and protests against this license, calling it "discriminatory and biased." Many critics have also dismissed this license are all hype and no substance.

"When copyright law has been serving the needs of the creative community for such a long time, what is the need for this fancy license? It's all a fad, just like that other one creative whatever..."

When it was pointed out that this license was for the protection of the uncreative writers, the demonstrators vehemently protested against the discriminatory terminology and demanded an immediate and unqualified apology. When asked for an explanation, a demonstrator thundered, "Why do you say writers? There are a lot of uncreative journalists, television show producers, movie directors, artists and musicians." However, he withdrew the demand for journalists being included under the description as it was just too difficult to classify them on any basis.

Many movie directors however, have shown no enthusiasm for the new licensing model whatsoever. In a moment of extraordinary frankness (pardon the usage) a famous director's disgruntled assistant, under the condition of absolute anonymity said "This license is merely an affirmation of the existing conditions of our industry. The script writers mostly remain anonymous, uncredited and underpaid and in most cases their work is crap and copied blatantly without attribution or recognition. We deserve the true credit for being an inspiration to the Papa Hari Foundation."

It is believed that many reality TV show producers have hastily filed an application to cover their work legally under this license.

5 comment(s)

  1. I think that this license should be blanket applied to nearly all recent music and film to protect their mediocrity.

    Comment by MrCorey (visitor) on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 @ 19:28 IST #
  2. I think that this license should be blanket applied to nearly all recent music and film to protect their mediocrity.

    MrCorey, isn't mediocrity actually protected already by existing copyright laws? :biggrin:

    Comment by Hari (blog owner) on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 @ 19:32 IST #
  3. I thought it was more like encouragement.

    Comment by MrCorey (visitor) on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 @ 22:50 IST #
  4. Wow. Creative. "A" for effort.

    Comment by MrCorey (visitor) on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 @ 05:02 IST #
  5. Mrcorey, :biggrin:

    Spam now dropped.

    Comment by Hari (blog owner) on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 @ 15:25 IST #

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