[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Aug 20 18:05:39 EDT 2007


On Monday 20 August 2007 05:28 pm, Peter Brink wrote:
> 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.

And if they refuse to withdraw their work, are they then guilty of a copyright 
violation even though the license is available?

Is this another area where legal practice could benefit by coming into better 
alignment with copyleft?
>
> /Peter Brink
>

all the best,

drew

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