[cc-community] Public domain materials

Edward Bryant edward.bryant at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 12:58:48 EDT 2006


I have begun posting some text-based public domain materials on a website.
The documents are posted in as many as three versions (original pdf, xml
markup version, and html markup version).

I want to label the materials, so that it is clear to users that the
original documents are pub. dom. I also want it to be clear that any
modified version (e.g., marked-up) may be subject to some restrictions (e.g.,
attribution).

There doesn't seem to be a single license that covers this situation.
Existing pub. dom. dedication licenses seem to assume that I am the author
of the document being dedicated, which I am not. Ideally, there would be a
pre-made CC notice that a work is already in the public domain, as well as
an accompanying license for the derivative of that work.

The CC license used by Eldred seems to mirror this situation most closely
but I cannot find a way to access a template of that license. Is his license
even a CC license?
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