[cc-community] Declaration of CC and copyright on the same website

Gruber Lukáš Lukas.Gruber at nkp.cz
Fri Mar 21 09:43:55 EDT 2008


Hello to all,

I have been subscribed to this list for quite long time and it finally comes the time to ask you for advise. Just short personal introduction before : I´m working in Web Archiving project of the National Library of the Czech Republic and as a part of my duties I sometimes deal with issues concerning to cc licences on the "czech" websites. Czech copyright law accepts open-source licences (including CC) as a tool for licencing work since summer 2006. We didnt oficially translate CC licence so far, so we use version unported 3.0...

And here´s the problem :-) What does it mean if the same website contains CC (BY-NC-ND) licence and also symbol for copyright ((c) 2003-2008 plus name of the author)?. What does it say to user? Is he allowed to use content of website according to CC licence (some right reserved) or is he constrained to keep the "full copyright" (all rights reserved)? 

I will try to express myself more concretely... If I followed this BY-NC-ND licence, I would be free of making  copies of the work and use it with proper attribution in  non-comercial way... But If I followed the copyright declaration, I would have to ask author for permission to do so... Is that right?

So in the end, my question is: How should user act in this case? Did you ever see websites like this one, containing both C and CC declarations?

Thanks a lot for any answer

Lukas Gruber
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Electronic Online Resources Dept.
The National library of the Czech Republic



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