[cc-community] Chilean Library of Congress license CC

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Fri Jan 26 15:58:26 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:46 -0800, Mia Garlick wrote:
> um, i think section 105 of the US Copyright Act has actually done  
> that and more for you jon http://www.copyright.gov/ 
> title17/92chap1.html#105.
> 
> there is no copyright recognized under US law for US federal  
> government works.
> 
> hence the US Library of Congress' statement re: the fact that "As a  
> publicly supported U.S. Government institution, the Library generally  
> does not own rights in its collections and what is posted on its Web  
> site."
> http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html#link

Oh yeah, that is right ;) hahaha Too fast to post ;) Now, I'm
embarrased ;)

Ok, I'll think more ambitiously: if we could get the content that the US
Library of Congress houses made by non-US government entities under a CC
license or into the public domain, that is under too restrictive
rules :)

Jon

> On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 17:33 -0300, Claudio Ruiz wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> It's a great pleasure for me to tell all of you that the Chilean  
> >> Library
> >> of Congress (http://www.bcn.cl) has released all his content with a
> >> Creative Commons license (CC- by-nc-sa).
> >>
> >> This is a very important notice for the CC Chile team, because  
> >> shows how
> >> the government can use alternative to the legal framework in order to
> >> bring freedoms to use to the citizen.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Claudio
> >> cc-chile
> >
> > This is very cool! I blogged it on the main cc site:
> > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7221
> >
> > I wish we could get this to happen in the US ;)
> >
> > Jon
> >
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