[cc-community] CC As One Excuse For Not Extending Copyright Exceptions

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Mar 5 07:31:39 EST 2009


On Thursday 05 March 2009 06:36:33 Rob Myers wrote:
> http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9838
>
> 'The [UK] Government suggested that legislators focus more on
> improving licensing of material by copyright owners to allow other
> people to make works using parts of their content. It said that
> companies had already found some success in negotiating such
> agreements themselves.
>
> "In addition to the 'Creative Commons' licence [sic] [...] '

On thing I think legislators should consider is the removal of the compulsory 
(statutory?) license when the work is offered under a copyleft-Free license 
such as BY-SA. (BY already removes the need to use such a license, right?)

I think this would be a decent balancing of the situation.
>
> - Rob.

all the best,

drew



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