[cc-community] New Science Commons protocol and the Open Data Commons legal tools
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Dec 17 20:57:46 EST 2007
Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> CCers: congratulations on the CC0 / CC+ projects, they both look very
> interesting (and seem to nicely balance out between the needs of
> proponents of different free cultural regimes).
Yep.
> One thing - and I agree here with Gavin - it's unclear to me what
> "protocol" here means. Is it a license? A standard? Something else?
A license is one part of the protocol, similar to how a copyright
license is just one part of
http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html or even
http://freedomdefined.org/Definition#Defining_Free_Cultural_Works
I wouldn't get hung up on the word "protocol" which is extremely coarse,
but maybe if getting hung up on it is the universal reaction Science
Commons would consider that feedback. :)
I would first echo others in saying that (Protocol for Implementing)
Open Access Data -- protocol makes a lot more sense if you read the
title as intended -- is superdoubleplusgood. The SC folk put a huge
amount of work into it with lots of input from others.
> Secondly, I am wondering whether these projects entail any localization?
> I imagine the answer is yes, but is it just some text strings, or also
> legal texts?
For CC+ just strings, which so far you can find and add
http://translate.creativecommons.org/pl/cc_org/ (search for
"permissions") -- Nathan Yergler will be continuing to bug translators
until these are updated for all languages. :)
CC0 will probably involve both, but that will evolve in the public
discussion that will be launched mid January when we have prototypes to
discuss.
> I'm also thinking that there will be huge translation work necessary if
> we are to provide multilingual instructions / faqs for these new tools.
It would be great to have translated versions of the CC+ PDFs (even just
as wiki pages) that are linked from http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus
Mike
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