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

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Mar 21 10:04:35 EDT 2008


On Friday 21 March 2008 09:43:55 Gruber Lukáš wrote:
> 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?

I don't think so. The gpl howto might make this a bit clearer.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

"Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two elements 
to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such as “Copyright 
1999 Terry Jones”), and a statement of copying permission, saying that the 
program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or 
the Lesser GPL)."

So, you have a statement of your copyright, and then a license grant for the 
copyrighted work.

Unless I am wrong of course. But that's how I would initially approach things. 
Let's see what others have to say on the issue.
>
> 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
> ===================================
> Electronic Online Resources Dept.
> The National library of the Czech Republic

all the best,

drew




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