Copyright Shouldn't Hold Technology Back

I’ld say “technology” should be able to evolve beyond copy-and-paste without having to knock on the doors of intellectual property like a thieve in the night in each and every frigging situation like a little “cry baby”. After all, there’s always the option to offer a payment to the copyright holder to get according usage licenses… which tends to pay the rent for most people, companies, organisations, and institutions – including the EFF itself.

If “copyright” were that limiting and/or superfluous, there wouldn’t be much sense for EFF's use of a CC-BY license ( or their elaborate copyright policy blurb at https://www.eff.org/copyright )

This is one of those times I’m wondering again: why doesn’t EFF put its stuff into PUBLIC DOMAIN to lead the way (like some of us do with some projects)? Being against something they use themselves (see CC-BY) seems to be somewhat hypocritical from my point of view. But that might just be me standing on the soapbox of an “unlicense” (aka Public Domain) developer… ;)