[cc-community] BY-SA license in the UK has non-waivered collection society fees?
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sun Aug 17 12:41:33 EDT 2008
drew Roberts wrote:
> Wow!
>
> "2.5. All rights not expressly granted by the Licensor are hereby reserved,
> including but not limited to, the exclusive right to collect, whether
> individually or via a licensing body, such as a collecting society, royalties
> for any use of the Work which results in commercial advantage or private
> monetary compensation."
>
> That seems seriously out of place in a BY-SA license. Fine for NC, but this is
> crazy on first glance from someone sitting where I am.
OTOH, "SA" "expressly grants" rights to reuse the work commercially. So
this would basically restrict anything that isn't granted by that part
of the license.
So maybe it isn't as far reaching as it sounds?
> However, once again, I would ask that we consider only waiving the fees when
> it will actually benefit the user if we do so. I see no reason to ever waive
> the fees to benefit the CS or their members when it will not help us or our
> licensees.
I wonder if that is the effect of the above? Since that's apparently an
unnecessary provision in the US, maybe that's one reason it isn't in the
US license (not sure about the unported).
BTW, this is "2.0" -- is that the latest version of the UK license?
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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