[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Tue Aug 21 18:44:05 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 23:19 +0200, Peter Brink wrote:
> Jon Phillips skrev:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 20:33 +0200, 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.
> >>
> >> /Peter Brink
> > 
> > Heya Peter, could you please point to those URLs for the discussion? I
> > would like to see more about this, etc...thanks...any other resources
> > about this would be helpful as well...
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> 
> See the thread "[cc-licenses] Children's creations under CC License" 
> (http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2007-July/005938.html)...
> 
> /Peter Brink

Thanks for this Peter. I'm talking with CC counsel about this issue some
more...cheers...

Jon

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