[cc-community] Over 250,000 CC-licensed sketches
Philipp Lenssen
philipp.lenssen at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 06:25:33 EST 2009
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Giorgos Cheliotis
<gcheliotis.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice site, simple and useful. But I find the implementation of CC+
> confusing.
>...
> It looks to me like these works should be licensed under CC BY. What is the
> point of saying this is "BY-NC CC+" rather than just stating that some works
> are under BY and some under BY-NC?
Giorgos, we're using CC+ as described here:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus
The point is that one cannot use a simple "BY" and then introduce
other restrictions, as the CC license in clause 8(e) specifically says
that "Licensor shall not be bound by any additional provisions that
may appear in any communication from You."
We also cannot use BY on 5000 images and BY-NC on the rest, because
you are free to choose which 5000 you want to use commercially; us
deciding on which 5000 are NC would severely restrict the purpose
(e.g. you ought to be free to create a "best of" cartoon book with
Sketchory sketches of your personal choice). So instead, we use BY-NC
on all images, but then -- via CC+ -- add a license which says "...
but commercial use is OK for up to 5000 images...".
As for the way the "CC+ " is linked from each page -- the "CC" linking
to the Creative Commons license, and the "+" links to the Share page
-- that is a compromise. Ideally, I would only want to link to the
Share page, as I believe it takes some explanation to how CC+ works
before the average user ought to be dropped onto e.g. our commercial
extra clause. However, because I need to somehow integrate the
rel="license" attribute for search engines and such, a link to the CC
license from every page seems to be needed (unless I would go for
RDFa, or so I heard, but that's apparently not as search engine proof
just yet). So now the sentence "pics can be shared (CC +)" contains
three links, two of them pointing to the Share page and one of them to
the CC page; from the Share page, our actual "+" (commercial) license
is linked.
Philipp
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