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

Barbara Bowen bbowen at olympus.net
Thu Apr 10 15:06:56 EDT 2008


Hello, CC Community Folks,

I just joined this discussion list yesterday. I¹ve read today¹s emails, but
not all those in the archives.

I¹d appreciate any thoughts you may be willing to share about the following
situation.

I am advising a non-profit that is working with teachers and wants to share
the work products the teachers have developed with the wider education
community. 

It¹s okay with them if other educators incorporate chunks of a document as
part of a new document as long as they cite the original author and that
it¹s not for commercial purposes.

I thought a CC ³Attribution, Share-Alike, Non-Commercial² License would be a
way to accomplish this.  But from what I¹ve read in today¹s posts, it
appears the CC License may simply be confusing, rather than facilitative,
partly  because it¹s still in its early stages of becoming a commonly
recognized and used practice.

Anyone willing to weigh in on whether you think the benefits of using the CC
License, e.g,, posting in Open Education Resources (OER),  and being on the
³leading edge² os sharing work via the web, are worth the potential
confusion.

Thanks,
Barbara
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Barbara Bowen, PhD
Managing Director

http://www.soundknowledgestrategies.com
360.774.6192




On 4/10/08 11:22 AM, "Matthew J. Agnello" <matt.agnello at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed. One of the weaknesses of CC is that without some sort of marking
> within the work, there's no guarantee that a link to CC somewhere near the
> work means the work is licensed under those terms. We all assume links equal
> licenses, even the tiny, difficult to find ones on Flickr, and perhaps a court
> would agree. But big companies like contracts, especially if they have to
> answer to Errors and Omissions insurance people who are notoriously picky
> about what constitutes copyright infringement.
> 
> So, the problem is connecting work and license, and a company would rather
> verify that connection through a traditional contract than by taking a risk
> with a "random photograph on a random website using a random license," as
> jonathan said.


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