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

Matthew J. Agnello matt.agnello at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 14:48:49 EDT 2008


Gavin Baker wrote:
> I might suggest, then, that someone (CC's GC?) write a boilerplate  
> form
> for this purpose (and, preferably, a Web interface). This would  
> allow a
> licensee to quickly generate a form requesting the licensor to confirm
> that they licensed the work and that they had the right to do so. ...
>
> I suppose this might be seen as undercutting the purpose of the CC
> licenses, which is to remove the guesswork from getting permissions,  
> but
> we know this is more myth than reality. Anybody can paste a license  
> on any
> given work; users are reasonable to want to confirm that the license  
> is
> legitimate and authorized. A little boilerplate could go a long way  
> toward
> that end, and help prevent this kind of end-run around the license  
> we see
> here.

I completely agree. Anything that ties the work and the license  
together in a stronger way helps increase legitimacy.

Best,
// Matt


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Matthew J. Agnello
http://www.hungryfilmmaker.com
< matt.agnello at gmail.com >






On Apr 10, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Gavin Baker wrote:

> I might suggest, then, that someone (CC's GC?) write a boilerplate  
> form
> for this purpose (and, preferably, a Web interface). This would  
> allow a
> licensee to quickly generate a form requesting the licensor to confirm
> that they licensed the work and that they had the right to do so. You
> could see this as the licensee-side complement to Registered Commons
> <http://registeredcommons.org/> -- perhaps it could even output there.
>
> I suppose this might be seen as undercutting the purpose of the CC
> licenses, which is to remove the guesswork from getting permissions,  
> but
> we know this is more myth than reality. Anybody can paste a license  
> on any
> given work; users are reasonable to want to confirm that the license  
> is
> legitimate and authorized. A little boilerplate could go a long way  
> toward
> that end, and help prevent this kind of end-run around the license  
> we see
> here.

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