[cc-community] CC Licenses and translation rights

Denver Gingerich denver at ossguy.com
Thu Jan 31 12:45:25 EST 2008


On Jan 31, 2008 10:51 AM, Ocetalo <zelus.et.radix at gmail.com> wrote:
> So by using ND condition I'm not allowing anybody anywhere (I mean, my
> condition applies internationally)

...insomuch as countries have signed international copyright treaties,
especially the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and
Artistic Works [1].  One should be aware that while most countries in
the world have signed the Berne Convention [2], the level of
implementation or enforcement varies widely from country to country.
In some countries that have signed the Berne Convention there is
virtually no enforcement of intellectual property rights at all.

> to translate my work without my
> permission?

It seems that the Creative Commons licenses provide a good baseline
for what is and isn't allowed and I'm not sure that it's worth
creating new licenses to handle special cases like translation.

I would much rather see people asking permission for derivatives when
an NoDerivs license is used.  It would be especially nice if this
became the norm instead of people assuming that when the license
prohibits a certain use, the copyright holder is unwilling to allow
that use.  There are many cases where the copyright holder is quite
willing to allow additional uses.  Some people use NoDerivs licenses
simply because they want to know when someone makes a derivative work
(since that person must ask them), not because they won't allow
derivative works.

Denver


1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_party_to_the_Berne_Convention


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