[cc-community] Chilean Library of Congress license CC
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Jan 26 16:07:57 EST 2007
On Friday 26 January 2007 03:58 pm, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 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 :)
Just putting up a web page listing the content that they have that is already
in the public domain would be a hugh help.
>
> 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).
Can you explain this? All the content in the library? Or all the content for
which the library holds the copyright?
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jon Phillips
> > > jon at creativecommons.org
> > > cell: 510.499.0894
> > >
> > > Software Engineer
> > > Creative Commons
> > > www.creativecommons.org
all the best,
drew
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