[cc-community] non-revocable cc license for collection to be donated to an archive?
Gavin Baker
gavin at gavinbaker.com
Thu Jan 31 02:53:03 EST 2008
Unless I'm mistaken, all of the Creative Commons licenses are
irrevocable, as part of the license.
john martirano wrote:
> Sorry for the length of this question, Ive read the FAQ, legal concepts
> and before licensing pages among others. Hopefully someone on here can
> illuminate this complex issue for us.
>
> We, the Salvatore Martirano Foundation, have a body of work (perhaps
> 30,000 physical and digital items) which we plan to license via the CC
> Attribution license. Otherwise we intend to allow its free and
> unfettered use. However, we are donating this body of work to an Archive
> at the University of Illinois for its continued preservation and care
> and want to ensure that the Archive adheres to the intent of our CC
> license until the works fall out of the scope of copyright. The
> Attribution would even point I presume to the very Archive which is to
> hold and manage the body of work.
>
> The body of work consists of letters, scores, audio tapes, video tapes,
> films, programs and much more. It exists in a physical format and much
> of that physical body of work exists in a digital form (ie images of
> documents or digitized audio).
>
> We would be delighted to recieve any suggestions or assistance which
> help in understanding or structuring our license (or Deed of Gift) such
> that we have a CC license that cannot be later revoked by the Archive.
> However, we dont want to hinder the Archive in carrying out its
> responsibilities and opportunities with respect to the work, they after
> all will manage the collection and will be the main contact point for
> access. Additionally some portion of the digital archive may be
> available online in multiple locations and some of that material is
> already and may soon be used in other derivative works.
>
> Several questions occur to me.
> 1) is this non-revocable securing of the CC license something that i put
> in the license itself or perhaps in the Deed Of Gift? (DOG is a standard
> contract in which the donor gives a collection pursuant to a set of
> criteria that must be followed for its care or use.)
> 2) from what i saw of the public dedication it seems to be
> non-revocable, I would like that status but with an Attribution
> requirement, is that possible?
> 3) existing copyright issues may arise because a small portion of the
> work already is copyrighted, can I have a blanket CC license for the
> body of work and merely note an exception for a list of previously
> copyrighted elements in the collection? rather than designate the
> license for each and every of the many items?
> 4) is one solution that i simply Attribute the work to the Archive where
> the collection is held, but still hold the copyright personally so that
> it cannot be changed? what happens when i die? can I ensure that the
> ability to freely disseminate the work is not revoked?
>
> Thanks for reading this far!
> John Martirano
>
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