[cc-community] avoiding the CC licensing path by rights users

jonathon jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 13:51:46 EDT 2008


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Alek Tarkowski wrote:

>  In short, the editors avoided the CC licensing path. There are two
>  possibilites:
>  a) they did not notice / know about it - CC markings at Flickr are
>  notoriously small and there is no clear information / explanation of
>  what they mean
>  b) they did not consider this path sufficiently secure

c) Due Diligence.  They are verifying that they can use the work that
they want to use.   A random photograph on a random website using a
random license grants users nothing. (Even if the meta data contains
the license terms, they would still have to do this. Metadata can be
removed or added by third parties.)

xan

jonathon


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