[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Mon Aug 20 17:28:26 EDT 2007


drew Roberts skrev:
> 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... ???

Minors can (in most jurisdictions) neither issue copyright licenses nor
become licensees of such licenses... The exact consequences of the later
case will vary from country to country. Where I live (i.e Sweden) the
license would just become void and the minor would have to withdraw
his/her work from circulation.

/Peter Brink



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