[cc-community] creative commons advice

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 11:45:35 EST 2008


I'm not really sure what the difference between "throwaway" and
"substantial" is, but I do know that copyleft makes more sense for some
projects and BY makes sense for others.

If you are concerned about work getting co-opted and used in proprietary
forms, then you may want to stick with a copyleft license like BY-SA. On the
other hand, if you just wish for your work to travel as far and as wide as
possible (and be used in proprietary environments) then BY might be what
you're looking for.

This  choice evokes the differences between permissive and copyleft
licenses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_license#Permissive_versus_Copyleft_controversy

Good luck and let us know when its live!

F

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:23 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 December 2008 18:06:25 Ching, James wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply, that's good to know, I think I may keep it simple
> and
> > go with a site wide license to start as my main reason is that I want the
> > users of my site to know and feel that if their content is republished at
> > all, they would get acknowledgment.  Appreciate your comment and example,
> > thanks again!
>
> My thoughts would be BY if you expect the content to be throwaway in nature
> or
> BY-SA if you expect the content to be more substantial. A lot of us are
> unlikely to use BY for substantial works. Or have BY and BY-SA us user
> profile options.
> >
> > -James
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cc-community-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> > [mailto:cc-community-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Burobjorn
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 04:34 PM
> > To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [cc-community] creative commons advice
> >
> > James,
> >
> > I belief that your application and use of the cc licenses for the
> > generated content would be perfect. You can either let the user select
> > the cc license or you can select a cc license yourself and let users of
> > your application adhere to that license.
> >
> > Personally I would go for the first option, but if you do want to limit
> > the users to one license please consider using a liberal and Commons
> > promoting license such as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. An example of a service
> > utilizing the CC-BY license (see the bottom of the site) is Identi.ca[1]
> > (a microblogging service such as Twitter, but available as free, open
> > source software).
> >
> > [1] http://identi.ca/
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > grtz
> > BjornW
> >
> > met vriendelijke groet,
> > Bjorn Wijers
> >
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> >
> > Ching, James wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I wanted to get some advice on a project that I'm working on which I'm
> > > not entirely sure if it would be a good candidate for cc or not.  I'm
> > > building an application which allows users to come to the website and
> > > write reviews on businesses, events and etc, utilizing those reviews, I
> > > am going to provide a tool that allows people to create widgets to
> > > re-publish these reviews on blogs, their own websites and etc.  After
> > > reading more about cc, I was thinking that applying a default license
> to
> > > reviews written on my site would be beneficial for both sides, the
> > > reviewer and the users utilizing the content on their website or blog.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I appreciate any advice and/or comments.  Let me know if this is the
> > > correct place to post this or if the web forum would be better?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -James
> > >
> > >
> > >
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