[cc-community] Relicensing after cc-by-2.0 licence breach

Paul Dixon paul at elphin.com
Thu Mar 1 05:12:42 EST 2007


Mia, I meant to pick on this in my earlier reply...

> so the definition of "You" under the license contemplates that a  
> licensee may continue to use the work despite a previous violation  
> but it's kind of conditional on whether the licensor is agreeable to  
> that ...
As I understand it, the licence doesn't form a contract, it is simply an 
open agreement to everyone - if you abide by X, I'll let you do Y, and 
if you stop doing X, then you will have to stop doing Y too, or 
appropriate action can be taken under copyright law.

I don't see that it is in any way conditional on the licensor having to 
agree a licence again. One doesn't need normally need to reach agreement 
with a licensor to exercise the CC licence terms.

I'm interested in knowing the right answer here, irrespective of the 
questions about the motives of the licensor or whether we should or 
should not remove the pictures

Paul.



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