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

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Fri Aug 17 15:45:14 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:10 -0400, Gavin Baker wrote:
> 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/

Yes, this is something that I have been pushing for at CC and is
actually a priority once our new GC comes online in the fall...cheers!

Also, search the archives of this list for forms that CC Taiwan made...

cheers

Jon

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> 
> 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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