[cc-community] relicensing

Lawrence Lessig lists at lessig.org
Tue Aug 12 09:44:25 EDT 2008


IAAL, but TINLA: The copyright owner is free under a CC license to  
issue the work under as many (non-exclusive) licenses as you'd like.  
So long as you're not using someone else's BY-SA's work, you can  
release your work under BY-NC, even though the same work is available  
under BY-SA. A related story is told here:

http://blip.tv/file/464274


On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:02 AM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Any thoughts on the best way to relicense a file?  I have a song that
>> I created and released under BY-SA and I need to make it also
>> available under an NC license for CC Mixter.
>>
>> Do I have to make a new version of the file with different metadata?
>
> I really doubt it.
>
>> Can I just do a blog entry saying that I grant a right to use it in  
>> an
>> NC context?
>
> I don't see why not, but presumably you could even just give one
> person permission, privately, to use in a BY-NC licensed work and pass
> those freedoms on to the public for the derivative work.
>
>> What would that say exactly?
>
> I don't know that 'relicense' is the right verb, but you can also make
> it available under BY-NC or whatever (plain BY would also allow NC
> licensing of derivatives).  Presumably the easiest and most clear way
> to do that if the context is ccMixter is to upload it to that site
> under an appropriate license.
>
> IANAL, etc.
>
> Mike
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