[cc-community] Suggestion: Individual License

Corfizz feedback at corfizz.com
Sun Sep 5 12:11:18 EDT 2004


Greg London wrote:

>I suppose its more like CC-Sampling (if I understand CC-Sampling right).
>
>An interesting license idea. It's also a fairly restrictive license
>on the scale of licenses. But, hey, it just might be crazy enough
>to work.
>  
>
Having just read through the Sampling license, I see that it's very 
similar indeed. The only difference would be that the Sampling license 
makes no allowance for the distribution of a derivative work to somebody 
already licensed to the original where that derivative work was 
unrestricted on the amount of transformation it underwent.

For example, if somebody changed a couple of notes of some music 
licensed with the Sampling license, they could not give it to somebody 
else - even if that somebody had already been licensed with the original 
- because it would not be sufficiently different from the original. At 
least, I get that impression.

Thank you for explaining the Public Domain to me - I understand it now.

One thing I don't understand is how the Creative Commons actually 
'works'. Is there any special legal process they have to go through in 
order to create a new license that will be recognised by law, or would 
it be possible for anybody to write their own license terms for a piece 
of work?

Thanks again.



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