[cc-community] Being called a thief for using CC

Fred Beneson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 00:03:30 EST 2008


In fact CC has already created and "retired" the sampling and sampling+ 
+ licenses. The legal code is obviously still valid but they have  
ceased being available online.



F

On Feb 16, 2008, at 11:55 PM, "Giorgos Cheliotis" <giorgos at smu.edu.sg>  
wrote:

> This and similar cases previously discussed on this list make me  
> think that we may really need a "sampling" license which allows for  
> the creation of derivative works that use only parts of the original  
> work (i.e. some form of highly transformative use), while  
> prohibiting the copying or reuse of the entire original work. We do  
> have such licenses in CC, but only for audio. Why not extend this to  
> other media? This is what the owner of Observatorio.info should have  
> used instead of BY-NC-SA.
>
> I expect this to become an issue with other websites as well. Yes,  
> according to the BY-NC-SA license, or any "BY" licenses for that  
> matter, one may copy the entire website, but sometimes those using  
> the license are too quick to assume that this is NOT the case, as it  
> goes against their understanding of intellectual property rights and  
> would seem absurd. It is thus understandable that some owners of  
> sites like Observatorio.info would be "royally pissed", because what  
> they really wanted was a sampling license, not a BY-NC-SA, and they  
> never imagined what the consequences of using BY-NC-SA would be.
>
> And then Miguel gets caught in the middle of this huge  
> misunderstanding, when in fact it seems that he complied with the  
> terms of the license. It's just that the terms did not reflect what  
> the licensor really wanted to achieve.
>
> Giorgos
>
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