[cc-community] Do you know about case study on why it is better to use CC instead of full Copyright?

attila kelényi tekatana2005 at gmail.com
Thu May 17 08:06:56 EDT 2007


On 5/17/07, Björn Lindström <bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se> wrote:
> Dessi Pefeva <dpefeva at isoc.bg>:
>
> > I missed the word "full" before copyright.
>
> The Creative Commons licenses uses the regular old copyright. There's
> nothing "less copyrighted" about it compared to "all rights reserved"
> distribution.

Then I guess we've been all mislead about the meaning of CC :)
Of course the work is protected by copyright in both cases, but the
point is that some uses are explicitly allowed with CC-d works. And
that's a significant difference. (Dessi obviously meant putting CC
instead of C on the work.)

attila
cc-hu


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