[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Aug 20 16:05:05 EDT 2007


On Monday 20 August 2007 02:33 pm, Peter Brink wrote:
> Rob Myers skrev:
> > This does assume that kids, rather than their parents, will be doing the
> > licensing...
>
> There was a thread about the subject of allowing minors to issue
> CC-licenses earlier this summer. Briefly: minors ought not be allowed to
> issue CC-licenses, there are legal hazards that could bite downstream
> users. Site-owners should be informed about this issue and ideally a
> site should have a warning message on any upload or posting page
> informing minors that they may not issue licenses.

I just raised the same issue.

Now an interesting wrinkle is what happens when a minor makes a derivative of 
a BY-SA work... ???
>
> /Peter Brink

all the best,

drew
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