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

Björn Lindström bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se
Fri May 18 12:46:30 EDT 2007


"attila kelényi" <tekatana2005 at gmail.com>:

> 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.)

Obviously there's a difference from the traditional "all rights
reserved" distribution, but then say that, rather than implying that
the Creative Commons licenses aren't ("full") copyright licenses. That
just helps create more confusion about copyright law than there
already is.

-- 
Björn Lindström <bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se>
Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden



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