[cc-community] CC licensing

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Nov 30 15:19:50 EST 2006


On Thursday 30 November 2006 02:53 pm, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> 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.

I think song publishers do this too.

You can get PD songs, claiming to be the best attempt at the original works 
and also claiming a copyright on the individual songs in a book of collected 
folk songs for example.
>
> 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.

all the best,

drew
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