[cc-community] CC-licensed terms and conditions / policies?

Gavin Baker gavin at arl.org
Fri Aug 17 14:10:45 EDT 2007


I'm sure the lawyers among us will think this is a 
terrible idea, but frankly, there are times where the cost 
of consulting counsel just outweigh the benefit.

For example, I think a professional, standardized version 
of a speaker's agreement would be very useful (think of 
all the conferences that are -- or should be -- making 
their speaker's slides, audio, or video available under a 
CC license). Siva has a good start here:

http://www.sivacracy.net/2005/04/creative_commons_speaker_agree.html

Seems like this might be a good promotion opportunity for 
a copy-positive lawyer -- give away some template 
contracts pro bono, gain publicity, people hire you for 
other jobs. If CC put out the call for pro bono help to do 
this, I'm sure some lawyers would respond --> goodwill for 
CC and the lawyers, and useful stuff for everybody else.

Maybe this would be thought of as under the aegis of 
Science Commons or ccLearn -- what contract types do 
people working in those fields commonly encounter -- 
particularly contracts that could be used to create more 
free content? see e.g. http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/

--
Gavin Baker
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Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
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gavin at arl.org


On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:58:50 +0300
  Tom Scott <thomas at thomasscott.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've checked back through a year of list archives, so I 
>don't think this 
> has been discussed here before:
> 
> I've had an idea - to start a site that stores 
>CC-licensed legal 
> templates. For example, WordPress' terms and conditions 
>are licensed 
> under CC-by 1.0. I'd suggest starting with something a 
>little more 
> generic, written especially for the project either via a 
>generous lawyer 
> or through donations.
> 
> Terms and conditions, particularly for startups, are 
>tricky things to 
> negotiate, and having something freely available (as 
>opposed to ripped 
> off some bigger company's terms, as so often happens) 
>would seem to be a 
> good idea.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -- Tom Scott
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