[cc-community] CC licensing

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Thu Nov 30 15:29:16 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 19:53 +0000, 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.

Yes.

> > 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. ;-)

Ha: http://openclipart.org A public domain collection of clip art
(SVG-based).

> > 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.

Agree.

> 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.

Yes, I agree...it would be much better to submit needed graphics as
request to Open Clip Art Library (which can be done), and then let the
community fill these requests...then you get PD declared images, others
can use them, and all is dandy :)

Jon

> IANAL, TINLA.
> 
> -Rob.
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