[cc-community] CC licensing

rob at robmyers.org rob at robmyers.org
Thu Nov 30 14:53:03 EST 2006


Quoting Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:

> I'm cc'ing the cc-community list to get more opinions. What do you all
> think about this? Russell is hoping to release 500 labels with more
> customized designs that consist of "royalty free" clip art, his
> companies labels (public domain), and he paid designers to lay them out.

If the images are governed by a non-CC license then the CC license 
cannot be the
entire agreement so it cannot be applied. I think you're right that the work
cannot be CC licensed if the work is not clearly pure PD.

> I recommend that he uses clip art from Open Clip Art Library and/or
> spend time to document what is needed and try to pull from public domain
> and other licensed compatible works.

Tell us more about this "Open Clip Art Library", Jon. ;-)

> Oh, he wants to cc-license this 500 label collection...

The licensing of "royalty free", often actually PD work, in clipart is an area
that really needs clearing up. I get quite annoyed at publishers who claim
collective copyright on PD collections then try to license individual works in
the collection to you. I won't touch anything from "Dover" with a copyright in
it for this reason.

Using Open Clipart Library work really is the best idea. If there's 
anything he
needs but isn't in the library yet this could be a good challenge for the OCAL
community to create new resources.

IANAL, TINLA.

-Rob.




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