[cc-community] Article on CC on Delicious Top List
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Tue Nov 13 20:17:19 EST 2007
Michael David Crawford wrote:
> I'm working on relicensing my music (it's harder than you would think)
>
> (The reason it's hard to relicense my work is that all the license
> notice artwork has to change - on my website, on my CD label and jewel
> case insert and so on. I have to update my BitTorrent downloads and
> regenerate my .torrent files and reseed them. It's a lot of work, so
> I've put off the relicensing for a long time.)
You realize, of course, that you cannot *retract* the v2.5 license, so
even if you change all of that, your work is technically available under
both 2.5 and 3.0 licenses after you "relicense".
In fact, "relicense" is a slight misnomer with CC licenses -- what you
really do is "additionally-license" under the new terms.
The practical upshot is that you can actually be as lazy about the
"change" as you want (different license statements on CDs and website or
whatever), because no matter how diligent you are, you still won't
eliminate the old licensed versions of your work.
I'm just saying you're not under any obligation to change everything at
once -- I understand if you just want to for the sake of completeness.
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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