[cc-community] Public domain materials

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Oct 3 11:59:56 EDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:58 -0500, Edward Bryant wrote:
> 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,

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ covers both dedication
and certification that a work is already in the public domain.

> as well as an accompanying license for the derivative of that work.

Use one of the standard CC licenses for the derivative.


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